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Last broadcast on Tue, 7 Sep 2010, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 (FM only).
Synopsis
With John Wilson.
Andrew Motion, chair of the judges of this year's Man Booker Prize, discusses the shortlist of novels in contention for the prize. The winner will be announced on Tuesday 12 October
The winner of the Mercury Prize for best album of the year is announced this evening. Steve Lamacq reports live from the awards ceremony and tells John his tip to win.
Art critic Martin Gayford and David Dawson, photographer and Freud's assistant, discuss the experience of having their portrait painted by Lucian Freud.
Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei stars alongside John C Reilly (Boogie Nights, Chicago) in Cyrus, a comedy drama exploring modern relationships. When a down on his luck divorcee meets the woman of his dreams, he discovers she shares a very close relationship with another man in her life: her son. Film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh reviews.
Producer Ella-mai Robey.
Man with a Blue Scarf, 2004. Lucian Freud.
Man with a Blue Scarf, 2004.
Oil on canvas, 66 × 50.8 (26 × 20). Private collection.
Lucian Freud Archive/Photography: John Riddy.
Works by Lucian Freud © 2010 Lucian Freud.
Martin Gayford and Lucian Freud, 2005
Man With a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, by Martin Gayford, is published in hardback.
The Man Booker Prize 2010 Shortlist
The winner will be announced on Tuesday 12 October
Peter Carey - Parrot and Olivier in America
Emma Donoghue - Room
Damon Galgut - In a Strange Room
Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question
Andrea Levy - The Long Song
Tom McCarthy - C
The Mercury Prize
The Barclaycard Mercury Prize Albums of the Year Award Show is held at Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Tuesday 7 September 2010.
Nominees:
Villagers - Becoming a Jackal
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Dizzee Rascal - Tongue 'n' Cheek
Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
Corinne Bailey Rae - The Sea
Paul Weller - Wake Up the Nation
Kit Downes Trio - Golden
Foals - Total Life Forever
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
I Am Kloot - Sky at Night
Mumford & Sons - Sigh no More
The xx - xx
Cyrus
Cyrus is released in cinemas nationwide on Friday 10 September, certificate 15.
Chapters
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Chapter 1
Andrew Motion, chair of the judges of this year's Man Booker Prize, discusses the shortlist of novels in contention for the prize.
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Chapter 2
The winner of the Mercury Prize for best album of the year is announced this evening. Steve Lamacq reports live from the awards ceremony and tells John his tip to win.
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Chapter 3
A review of the film Cyrus, starring Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei and John C Reilly (Boogie Nights, Chicago).
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Chapter 4
Art critic Martin Gayford and David Dawson, photographer and Freud's assistant, discuss the experience of having their portrait painted by Lucian Freud.
Broadcast
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Tue 7 Sep 201019:15
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