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Front Row: Bobby Fischer film, and Mr Benn creator David McKee

Bobby Fischer film, and Mr Benn creator David McKee

13/07/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Bobby Fischer film, and Mr Benn creator David McKee

Bobby Fischer documentary film, and Mr Benn creator David McKee.

Dominic Lawson reviews the new film about chess player Bobby Fischer; Mr Benn creator David McKee; Basement Jaxx join forces with the Metropole Orkest; and artist Patrick Hughes.

With Mark Lawson. 

Chess champion Bobby Fischer is the focus of a new film documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World. The troubled American, who died in 2008 at the age of 64, was best known for beating the Russian Boris Spassky to become world champion in 1972. Chess fan Dominic Lawson reviews. 

Artist Patrick Hughes creates paintings which play giddying tricks with perspective and appear to protrude from the canvas and move. Once described as the godfather of the UK surrealists, he has a new retrospective celebrating 50 years of his work. Patrick Hughes takes Mark around his studio and explains how he came to invent his 'Reverspective' technique. 

Felix Buxton from the band Basement Jaxx and the conductor Jules Buckley talk about their new orchestral project, which features re-workings of Basement Jaxx songs, and original compositions, performed by the Metropole Orkest, a choir and many of the band's renowned singers.

Adam Smith remembers the pleasures of watching forbidden films on VHS - and wonders whether today's young cinephiles, with instant digital access, are missing out. 

Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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