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Front Row: Colin Firth and Costa Book Category Winners revealed

Colin Firth and Costa Book Category Winners revealed

04/01/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Colin Firth and Costa Book Category Winners revealed

Mark Lawson announces the Costa Book Award category winners and talks to Colin Firth.

Mark Lawson announces the Costa Book Award category winners. Colin Firth and director Tom Hooper on portraying royalty in The King's Speech. And Pete Postlethwaite remembered.

With Mark Lawson, including news of the winners of each category in the Costa Book Awards - best novel, first novel, biography, children's book and poetry. 

Colin Firth and director Tom Hooper on portraying royalty and how to act with a stammer in The King's Speech - a film based on the relationship between George VI and his Australian speech therapist . 

And from the Front Row archives actor Pete Postlethwaite, who died yesterday. Writer Alan Bleasdale remembers working with him in Liverpool theatres when their careers began. 

Producer Robyn Read.

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