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Last broadcast on Thu, 29 Jul 2010, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
With John Wilson, who reviews new cinematic remakes of the 1980s screen hits The Karate Kid and The
A-Team.
Comedian Stewart Lee analyses his work in How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life And Deaths Of A Stand-Up Comedian; the book details Lee's return to stand-up comedy after quitting the business in 2001 and going on to direct Jerry Springer the Opera.
John Wilson talks to photographer Harold Chapman, whose work depicts life at 9 Rue Git-le-Coeur, nicknamed the Beat Hotel, a run-down residence in Paris' Latin Quarter famed as the flophouse of some of the most important writers, poets and artists of the Beat Generation.
Rachel Campbell-Johnston reviews the exhibition Impressionist Gardens, which examines the significance, origins, and influence of the Impressionist garden.
Producer Rebecca Nicholson.
Karate Kid and The A -Team
Karate Kid is in cinemas around the UK now, certificate PG;
The A - Team is in cinemas around the UK now, certificate 12A.
How I Escaped My Certain Fate
How I Escaped My Certain Fate, by Stewart Lee, is published on Thursday 5 August.
Impressionist Gardens
Impressionist Gardens is at the National Gallery Complex, in Edinburgh, from 31 July until 17 October.
The Beat Hotel
Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg
© Harold Chapman/TopFoto
The Beat Hotel
Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg
© Harold Chapman/TopFoto
The Beat Hotel
William S. Burroughs
© Harold Chapman/TopFoto
The Beat Hotel
Brion Gysin
© Harold Chapman/TopFoto
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