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Last broadcast on Wed, 5 Jan 2011, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Kirsty Lang talks to actor Stephen Mangan about his new comedy, Episodes, which satirises the American TV industry, and he also explains why appearing on Celebrity Mastermind was the single most terrifying thing he ever did.
To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Franz Liszt, pianists Barry Douglas - who plays the Second Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra this week - and Leslie Howard, president of the British Liszt society (for 21 years) and the only person to have recorded all Liszt's complete solo piano works - consider the unique demands made by the piano-writing of this quintessential Romantic performer and composer.
Lucien Pisarro's Eragny Press is the subject of an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford; the curator John Whiteley discusses Pisarro's desire to foster links between artists in France and England.
STEPHEN MANGAN
Episodes begins the first of seven episodes on Monday, 10 January at 10.00pm on BBC2.
Image: Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig and Matt LeBlanc.
Celebrity Mastermind is available on iPlayer for the rest of this week:
LISZT 200th BIRTHDAY
Barry Douglas plays Liszt's Piano Concerto No 2, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Francois-Xavier Roth at the Barbican Concert Hall, London, on 6 January.
Leslie Howard has a Liszt 200th anniversary recital at the Wigmore Hall, London, on 14 January - including the first public performances of Liszt's piano version of his Oratorio Christus. Leslie's recordings of all Liszt's solo piano works are available on the Hyperion label.
LUCIEN PISSARRO
Lucien Pissarro in England: The Eragny Press 1895 - 1914 is at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Gallery 61, from 8 January to 13 March 2011. Admission is Free.
Chapters
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Chapter 1
Stephen Mangan about his new comedy Episodes and why Celebrity Mastermind was the single most terrifying thing he ever did.
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Chapter 2
Pianists Barry Douglas and Leslie Howard on the life of Frans Liszt and his unique style of piano-writing.
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Chapter 3
Curator John Whiteley on Lucien Pissarro's Eragny Press exhibition.
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Chapter 4
Children's author Dick King Smith sadly died today. Listen to part of an interview with him from 2001.
Broadcast
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Wed 5 Jan 201119:15
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