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Front Row: Jim Broadbent; Young Adult Fiction; Tena Stivicic; Comedy DVDs

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05/12/2014

Jim Broadbent; Young Adult Fiction; Tena Stivicic; Comedy DVDs

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Jim Broadbent; Young Adult Fiction; Tena Stivicic; Comedy DVDs

Jim Broadbent, young adult fiction, the Elgin Marbles, Tena Stivicic, and comedy DVDs.

Jim Broadbent on playing Father Christmas in Get Santa, plus young adult fiction, the Elgin Marbles, Croatian playwright Tena Stivicic, and Stephen Armstrong's pick of comedy DVDs.

Jim Broadbent talks to Kirsty Lang about playing Father Christmas for the third time in his new film Get Santa; Matt Haig and Katherine Woodfine on Young Adult Fiction; Croatian playwright Tena Stivicic discusses her play 3 Winters at the National Theatre; Stephen Armstrong brings us his pick of the year's comedy DVDs; and following the news that the British Museum has loaned one of the Elgin Marbles to the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Peter Aspden considers the role museums and galleries can play when political harmony between nations breaks down.

Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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