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The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice: Feauturing star of BBC1's Mistresses; actress Sharon Small.

22/10/2010

Feauturing star of BBC1's Mistresses; actress Sharon Small.

BBC Radio 2 - The Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice, Feauturing star of BBC1's Mistresses; actress Sharon Small.

Claudia meets star of BBC TV's Mistresses Sharon Small, and the composer Carl Davis.

...Claudia Winkleman. Claudia meets star of BBC TV's Mistresses Sharon Small, and the composer Carl Davis. Plus Charles Gant reviews the latest films.

On The New Radio 2 Arts Show tonight:

Claudia meets star of BBC TV's Mistresses Sharon Small, who is starring at the National Theatre in the rarely performed 'Men Should Weep' by Ena Lamont Stewart. Set in the Glasgow tenements in the midst of the 1930s depression, 'Men Should Weep' was a forerunner for the kitchen sink dramas and 'angry young men' plays of the 1950s. 

The composer Carl Davis who is a conductor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and regularly conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He has written music for more than 100 television programmes, but is best known for creating music to accompany silent films.

Denis Blais, the director/designer of The Spaghetti Western Orchestra. Armed with over 100 instruments, ranging from the conventional to an incredible array of everyday objects, including nail clippers, an asthma inhaler, cornflakes, Tasmanian lottery balls and the orchestral whip - Spaghetti Western Orchestra's five musicians from Australia perform Ennio Morricone's classic scores written for Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western films. Featured soundtracks include the well-known themes for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More and Once Upon a Time in the West. 

British horror film director Simeon Halligan, who is the Festival Director of Grimm Up North - the UK's premier horror and sci-fi film festival, based in Manchester. 

Plus, Charles Gant reviews this week's film releases, and Ismene Brown has the latest from the world of dance.

And Brian Sibley meets Paige O'Hara; the voice of Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

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