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Front Row: Miriam Margolyes on her 70th birthday

Miriam Margolyes on her 70th birthday

18/05/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Miriam Margolyes on her 70th birthday

Miriam Margolyes talks to Mark Lawson on her 70th birthday.

With Mark Lawson. Miriam Margolyes on her 70th birthday; Zoe Wanamaker in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard; Naomi Alderman on computer game LA Noire.

On her 70th birthday, actress Miriam Margolyes reflects on her career - from Cambridge Footlights to Harry Potter, via Dickens' Women and Blackadder. She discusses her disappointment that she has never worked at the National Theatre or the RSC, and reveals her advice to Daniel Radcliffe and young people in general.

Zoe Wanamaker stars in a new staging of Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard, directed by Howard Davies at the National Theatre. Writer Tobias Hill reviews.

American writer Philip Roth has won the Man Booker International Prize, announced today. From the Front Row archive, he reflects on being too closely identified with characters in his novels such as Portnoy's Complaint and American Pastoral. 

Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller is one of the judges of the Art Fund Prize for museums or galleries, and has been keeping an audio diary for Front Row as he visits contenders for this year's Prize. In his third report, Jeremy travels to the People's History Museum in Manchester, to the refurbished gallery at Mostyn, Llandudno, and to the British Museum for its History Of The World In 100 Objects. 

The new computer game LA Noire invites you to become a Los Angeles cop in 1947, a role which mixes gumshoe duties and gunfire, as you progress through the force in a setting which borrows heavily from film noir. Novelist and games player Naomi Alderman reviews. 


Producer Nicki Paxman.

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