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Front Row: Julie Walters back on stage, Adrian Lester, and Ed Stoppard on Alan Turing

Julie Walters back on stage, Adrian Lester, and Ed Stoppard on Alan Turing

20/06/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Julie Walters back on stage, Adrian Lester, and Ed Stoppard on Alan Turing

Julie Walters back on stage; Adrian Lester's advice for actors; Ed Stoppard on Alan Turing

Julie Walters returns to the stage in The Last of the Haussmans; Ed Stoppard on codebreaker Alan Turing; Adrian Lester answers questions from young actors.

With Mark Lawson. 

Julie Walters returns to the stage playing an old hippie, in The Last of the Haussmans, a debut play by Stephen Beresford. The play also stars Helen McCrory and Rory Kinnear as Judy's grown-up children and the victims of a rackety 60s upbringing. Valerie Grove reviews.

A new exhibition at the Science Museum celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, the wartime codebreaker and pioneering computer scientist. Actor Ed Stoppard, who played Turing in a recent TV docudrama, reviews. 

Actor Adrian Lester, star of hustle on BBC One, discusses his career and takes questions from a group of young would-be actors in a session recorded in Hackney at the Radio 1 Academy. 

Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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