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Front Row: Actor Dominic West; Paul Simon reviewed

Actor Dominic West; Paul Simon reviewed

02/06/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Actor Dominic West; Paul Simon reviewed

With Mark Lawson, including an interview with actor Dominic West.

With Mark Lawson. Dominic West discusses his new role in Simon Gray's play Butley; a guide to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; and Paul Simon's first new album for five years.

With Mark Lawson. 

Actor Dominic West discusses his latest stage role, playing Butley, Simon Gray's acid-tongued academic in the play of the same name, as well as reflecting on his TV work, which includes the US series The Wire. 

As the 243rd Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London prepares to open, curators and Academicians Michael Craig-Martin and Christopher Le Brun guide Mark through this year's selection of painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, architecture and film by internationally acclaimed artists and unknown individuals who have submitted their own work.

Jason Isaacs stars as private detective Jackson Brodie in Case Histories, a new six part TV series based on Kate Atkinson's best selling novels. Rachel Cooke reviews.

Paul Simon's first new album for five years, So Beautiful Or So What, is out this month. A new edition of Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water has also just been released, four decades after it dominated the British album charts. Music critic Kate Mossman reflects on Paul Simon now and then. 

Producer Philippa Ritchie.

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