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Victoria Derbyshire: 03/01/2011

03/01/2011

BBC Radio 5 Live - Victoria Derbyshire, 03/01/2011

Tributes to actor Pete Postlethwaite and local council bin collections rated by listeners.

Tributes to actor Pete Postlethwaite and listeners rate their councils on bin collections in the past month. Text: 85058 (at your standard message rate).

Victoria gets reaction to the news that the actor, Pete Postlethwaite, has died in hospital in Shropshire, following a fight against cancer. Jason Solomons, chairman of the London Film Critics Circle spoke to Victoria about Pete Postlethwaites life and work who said he would be best remembered for his roles in Distant voices Still lives, Brassed Off and The Usual Suspects.

Victoria also head from people around the country who hadn't had their bins collected in nearly a month. Some of the worst affected areas included parts of Birmingham, Exeter, Milton Keynes.

And all this week Victoria is meeting the top five most exciting musical artists in the BBC's Sound of 2011 list - Today she talks to former shop assistant Clare Maguire who had the likes of Jay Z and Rick Rubin queuing up to sign her to their label..

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