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22/01/2014

Simon Russell Beale; Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Simon Russell Beale on King Lear, plus author Lucy Hughes-Hallet, and film script secrecy.

Mark Lawson talks to Simon Russell Beale about playing King Lear at the National Theatre, and Lucy Hughes-Hallett discusses her award-winning biography of D'Annunzio.

With Mark Lawson.

Simon Russell Beale is playing King Lear at the National Theatre, in a new production directed by Sam Mendes. Last night one of the actors lost his voice, prompting Mendes to apologise and bring on the understudy. Simon Russell Beale discusses his approach to the challenging role and what happened behind the scenes last night.

Costa biography prize-winner Lucy Hughes-Hallett talks about The Pike, her biography of the Italian poet and daredevil Gabriele D'Annunzio, which also won the 2013 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction.

Quentin Tarantino has announced that he is dropping his new film Hateful Eight, a follow-up to Django Unchained, after the script was leaked. Film critic Mark Eccleston discusses some of the more extreme examples of script security and why film-makers are so keen to keep their scripts secret.

Producer: Timothy Prosser.

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