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45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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British film Beast, The Writer at the Almeida, Curtis Sittenfeld's You Think It, I'll Say It, Rodin and the art of ancient Greece at the British Museum, The Rain on Netflix. Show more
45 minutes
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Shakespeare meets Blackadder in Upstart Crow, Midsummer Night's Dream at the Globe Theatre, Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups, Louise Erdrich's novel LaRose, and artist Mona Hatoum. Show more
45 minutes
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From the Edinburgh Festivals: The best of theatre, literature, comedy, surrealist art, Tickled documentary and Herman Koch's Dear Mr M. Show more
43 minutes
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Cultural discussion programme. Tom Sutcliffe at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead with Russell Foster, Denise Mina, Stephen Westaby and Eugenia Cheng. Show more
28 minutes
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Alan Hollinghurst talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new novel, The Sparsholt Affair. Show more
28 minutes
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Mariella Frostrup presents a Sir Walter Scott special from the Royal Opera House, with biographer Stuart Kelly, authors Denise Mina and Allan Massie and actor Emun Elliott. Show more
28 minutes
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Denise Mina talks to Mariella Frostrup about writers using their jobs as the backdrop to their novels, the WWII heroine Agent Marie, and her latest crime novel The Red Road. Show more
28 minutes
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Books news with Mariella Frostrup. Justin Cartwright on his novel Lion Heart, Joe Sacco explains why he portrayed the Great War in pictures, and the rise of the graphic novel. Show more
45 minutes
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Tom Sutcliffe and guests review Hilary Mantel's The Assasination of Margaret Thatcher, Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, an Anselm Kiefer retrospective, Ida and Transparent. Show more
45 minutes
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Edinburgh Festivals: Beggar's Opera, Maladie de la mort, Midsummer, Raqib Shaw exhibition, Andrew Miller's Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, The Eyes of Orson Welles. Show more
30 minutes
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Mark Lawson reports from the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival, with Kate Atkinson on Jackson Brodie, Ruth Rendell and Jeanette Winterson on their relationship, and Val McDermid. Show more
30 minutes
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Mark Lawson reviews Burton and Taylor, and talks to crime writer Denise Mina and film director Noah Baumbach. Mark Ravenhill chooses Dennis Potter's Casanova for Cultural Exchange. Show more
30 minutes
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Art inspired by Reading Gaol's most famous inmate, Oscar Wilde; Bjork goes digital at Somerset House; best of Venice Film Festival; and court-room drama on trial. Show more
30 minutes
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Kirsty Lang reviews the nuclear scenario drama War Book and talks to Eric Whitacre about his new choral work inspired by the Hubble Space Telescope. Plus crime writer Denise Mina. Show more
30 minutes
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Arts news, including TV drama Black Work, Robert Wilson on Krapp's Last Tape, the Mayas Exhibition in Liverpool, and Manda Scott on her latest novel featuring Joan of Arc. Show more
30 minutes
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Arts news with Samira Ahmed, including Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer at Buckingham Palace, Vikram Seth on his Collected Poems and The Last Panthers reviewed. Show more
30 minutes
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Val McDermid is at the Edinburgh International Books Festival where she talks to Paul Auster about 4 3 2 1, and to Denise Mina about The Long Drop. Sam Lee performs. Show more
58 minutes
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Amanda Redman talks about her new TV role, plus there is discussion on what can be done if domestic violence is suspected. Presented by Jenni Murray. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Pinky Lilani, Denise Mina, Jay Griffiths and John Gallagher compare experiences of life in the fast lane with taking the slow route, whether in business, writing or leisure time. Show more
