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Start the Week: 24/10/2011

24/10/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, 24/10/2011

Andrew Marr and Jarvis Cocker, Jez Butterworth, Melanie Challenger and Matthew White.

Andrew Marr and musician Jarvis Cocker, playwright Jez Butterworth, poet Melanie Challenger and author Matthew White.

Andrew Marr talks to musician Jarvis Cocker about lyrics and the lyricism of the everyday; to playwright Jez Butterworth about his vision of bucolic myths and modern brutality in the English countryside; to poet Melanie Challenger about the extinction of species and also of ways of life and to Matthew White who catalogues and compares the brutality of humanity throughout the ages. 

Producer: Eleanor Garland.

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