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Clare throws a street party, Brian explores the female mind and a kitten goes missing. Stars Sally Phillips. From March 2009.
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Mark Lawson puts Alan Bennett in the Mastermind chair - specialist subject: TV plays of Alan Bennett. Also, marking the death of Tony Curtis with a Front Row interview from 2008. Show more
Neil MacGregor explores the overlapping of faiths across the globe around 400 years ago. Today, he is with a map that shows what happened after Catholic Spain's conquest of Mexico. Show more
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