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Last broadcast on Tue, 9 Jun 2009, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 (FM only).
Synopsis
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson.
The showman and illusionist Derren Brown can seemingly predict and control human behaviour. He discusses his mix of suggestion, psychology and misdirection and tells Mark Lawson about a very different skill, as a caricature artist.
Has history been taken over by amateurs? Forty years ago, Lady Antonia Fraser published the biography 'Mary, Queen of Scots'. As a new edition of the biography is released, she discusses the writing of history with Margaret MacMillan, whose recently published The Uses and Abuses of History analyses popular fascination with history.
Film critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Mark Eccleston review three very different films: John Woo's Red Cliff, an epic set during the end of the Han Dynasty; the documentary The End of the Line, which exposes the negative effects of fishing on the world's oceans; and The Hangover, a comedy about a stag night set in Las Vegas.
DERREN BROWN
Portraits is published by Channel 4 Books.
Enigma is at the Adelphi Theatre London from Monday June 15 - Saturday July 18 2009.
ANTONIA FRASER and MARGARET MACMILLAN
Mary, Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser, published in a new edition by Orion, is out now in paperback.
The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret Macmillan, published by Profile Books, is out now in original paperback.
FILMS
Red Cliff is released nationwide on Friday 12 June, certificate 15.
The Hangover is released nationwide on Friday 12 June, certificate 15.
The End of the Line is released nationwide on Friday 12 June, certificate PG.
Broadcast
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Tue 9 Jun 200919:15
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