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Last broadcast on Wed, 11 Nov 2009, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Mark Lawson visits the new Nottingham Contemporary arts venue and speaks to its director, Alex Farquharson, whose opening show is a major retrospective of the work of David Hockney, and the architect Adam Caruso of Caruso St John, who has created a green concrete and gold metal building on the site of a former railway cutting.
Steven Soderbergh, director of Erin Brokovich, Traffic and Ocean's Eleven, talks about his new film, The Informant! which stars Matt Damon as a whistleblower in an agri-industry company.
Mark reviews the new Channel 4 comic drama series Cast Offs, in which disabled characters are left on a desert island for a fictional reality TV programme, with the journalist Sarah Crompton and the sociologist and disability rights campaigner Tom Shakespeare.
NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY
Nottingham Contemporary opens on Saturday 14 November.
THE INFORMANT!
Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! opens in cinemas Friday 20 November. Certificate 15.
CAST OFFS
Channel 4 drama series Cast Offs starts on Tuesday 24 November.
Broadcast
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Wed 11 Nov 200919:15
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