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28 minutes
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Cinema releases, DVD and film news with Francine Stock. Nick Cave discusses his documentary 20,000 Days on Earth, plus Jonathan Coe on Midnight and Lone Scherfig on The Riot Club. Show more
45 minutes
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Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss Arden of Faversham at the Swan Theatre, Joseph O'Connor's latest novel The Thrill of It All, plus new works from Michael Fassbender and Lily Allen. Show more
30 minutes
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Oliver Hirschbiegel on his film 13 Minutes, a theatrical retelling of the Arthurian legend Camelot on the streets of Sheffield, writer Mike Nicol, Irish animation Song of the Sea. Show more
45 minutes
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Tom Sutcliffe discusses Matisse cut-outs at Tate Modern, Tom Hardy in Locke, the RSC's Henry IV parts 1 and 2, Fargo the TV series and Jayne-Anne Phillips' new novel Quiet Dell. Show more
45 minutes
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Paolo Sorrentino's film Youth with Harvey Keitel and Michael Caine, Spotlight, Howard Jacobson's My Name is Shylock, Pulitzer prize-winning play Wit, and Electronic Superhighway. Show more
45 minutes
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Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss comics at the British Library, Kinks musical Sunny Afternoon, indie film Blue Ruin, Edward St Aubyn's new novel and Tom Hollander as Dylan Thomas. Show more
45 minutes
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Tom Sutcliffe discusses Privacy, a play about surveillance at the Donmar, Simon Armitage's Last Days of Troy, John Simm in police drama Prey, and Chris Marker at the Whitechapel. Show more
28 minutes
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Presented by Francine Stock. Director Richard Linklater discusses Boyhood, his ground-breaking new movie, which was filmed over 12 years of a boy's life, from six to eighteen. Show more
28 minutes
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Amma Asante discusses Belle; Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris on a French trilogy that has spanned 12 years; the Weird Wave of Greek cinema; why Icelandic men love their horses. Show more
28 minutes
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Antonia Quirke presents a valentine to the cinema in a special edition about love in the movies. She talks to Terence Stamp, Sir Richard Eyre and documentary maker Kim Longinotto. Show more
28 minutes
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Obituary series. Matthew Bannister remembers sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, Yugoslavia's First Lady Jovanka Broz, comedian Felix Dexter and social work academic Olive Stevenson. Show more
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Matthew Bannister remembers Ghanaian poet and diplomat Kofi Awoonor, addiction counsellor Peter Kay, beat writers' muse Carolyn Cassady and special branch officer Ferguson Smith. Show more
28 minutes
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Matthew Bannister on country star George Jones, Labour Party general secretary Jim Mortimer, film star Deanna Durbin, cellist Janos Starker and co-housing campaigner Sarah Berger. Show more
28 minutes
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Obituary series. Matthew Bannister remembers Baroness Thatcher, IVF pioneer Sir Robert Edwards, Corgi toy designer Marcel Van Cleemput and Muppets co-creator Jane Henson. Show more
28 minutes
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Obituaries. Matthew Bannister remembers archaeologist Mick Aston, psychoanalyst Betty Joseph, Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, writer Michael Baigent, and aboriginal singer Mr Yunupingu. Show more
28 minutes
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Matthew Bannister remembers renowned White House correspondent Helen Thomas, painter William Turner, comedian Mel Smith, futurologist Dr James Martin and blues singer T-Model Ford. Show more
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Matthew Bannister on Falklands War admiral Sir Sandy Woodward, writer and rock singer Mick Farren, French new wave actress Bernadette Lafont, and fracking pioneer George Mitchell. Show more
Archaeologist Christine Finn goes in search of sounds not heard for millennia, including Tutankhamun's trumpet. From 2011. Show more
30 minutes
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Matthew d'Ancona speaks to conductor Antonio Pappano, reviews Devil's Knot, interviews Anne Washburn about her futuristic play Mr Burns and discusses a large Banksy retrospective. Show more
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Arts news. Samira Ahmed talks to director Matthew Vaughn and Kick Ass writer Mark Millar about the film Kingsman: The Secret Service. Plus an interview with puppeteer Basil Twist. Show more
