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Last broadcast on Mon, 24 Aug 2009, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4.
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Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson.
Mark Lawson talks to John Carey, who has written the first biography of Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies.
The Emmy Award-winning director, producer and screenwriter Judd Apatow has found huge box office success with comedies like Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin. The former stand-up comedian has won critical acclaim as well as popular appeal. His new film Funny People, which follows the fortunes of two stand-up comics, is now being released.
The writer Christopher Hampton is reported to have thought the subject of cricket too difficult to have as a theme for a feature film. But word is that Hampton has finally agreed to write the screenplay for Sam Mendes' adaptation of Joseph O'Neill's novel Netherland, about a group of British ex-pats who play cricket in post-9/11 New York. Actor and cricket aficionado Michael Simkins, author of cricket book Fatty Batter, ponders the dilemma faced by writers and filmmakers when dealing with the subject.
Funny People
Funny People is at cinemas nationwide on Wednesday, certificate 15.
John Carey
William Golding by John Carey is published by Faber and Faber on 3 September.
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Mon 24 Aug 200919:15
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