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Front Row: Marilyn Monroe remembered; Africa United

Marilyn Monroe remembered; Africa United

14/10/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Marilyn Monroe remembered; Africa United

Marilyn Monroe's hand-written fragments; best-selling children's writer Michelle Paver.

With Kirsty Lang; Marilyn Monroe's hand-written notes; a report on the film Africa United; artist Christian Marclay's video The Clock; Michelle Paver's Arctic ghost story.

Hand-written notes, poems and letters by Marilyn Monroe are collected in a new book called Fragments. Her writings reveal intimate feelings about love, relationships and work, and the book's editors suggest that they offer new insight into the anguish she suffered. Sarah Churchwell and Adrian Wootton review.

The film Africa United tells the story of three Rwandan children and their journey to the opening ceremony of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa - a trip which takes them to the Democratic Republic of Congo by mistake. The film's director, writer and actors talk about casting the young leads and offering a realistic portrait of contemporary Africa.

The Clock, a new video art-work by Christian Marclay, is a montage of clips of watches, clocks and other moments which express the time, gathered from several thousand films and structured so that the resulting artwork always tells the correct time, minute by minute. The writer and film-maker Iain Sinclair reports straight from watching the first half hour, from 6pm today. 

Michelle Paver, winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, talks about writing Dark Matter, her new adult ghost story set in the Arctic of the 1930s, and the close encounter with a Californian bear which informed her portrayal of Polar bears.

Producer Nicki Paxman.

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