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02/10/2014

Matthew Barzun, Speed-the-Plow Review

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Matthew Barzun, Speed-the-Plow Review

Anne McElvoy is joined by the US ambassador to Britain. Plus a review of Speed-the-Plow.

Anne McElvoy is joined by the American ambassador to Britain, Matthew Barzun. Plus a review of David Mamet's play Speed-the-Plow, starring Lindsay Lohan and Richard Schiff.

At a time when the special relationship between the UK and the US is under particular scrutiny, Anne McElvoy talks to the American Ambassador to Britain, Matthew Barzun, about the politics of power and takes a look at sexual politics in Hollywood in the new Anglo-American production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, starring Lindsay Lohan and Richard Schiff.

Producer: Harry Parker
Photo Credit: Simon Annand.

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