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Last broadcast on Thu, 4 Aug 2011, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the musical partnership of violinist Viktoria Mullova and cellist Matthew Barley, whose new disc draws on folk and jazz traditions.
Author Kathy Lette reviews The Tree, which stars Charlotte Gainsbourg as a woman living in rural Australia who is faced with raising four children alone when her husband dies. The film is an adaptation of the novel Our Father Who Art in The Tree by Judy Pascoe.
Front Row explores the photographic portrayal of two iconic holiday resorts.
Documentary photographer, Anna Fox, has spent two years capturing life at Butlins, Bognor Regis - to mark the 75th anniversary of the holiday company. In the late 60s and 70s John Hinde produced a range of photographs of Butlins. Anna's large-format images are created with the help of a team of assistants, and she explains to Kirsty how her approach is similar to working with a film crew, and how her real-life subjects react.
A new exhibition in Blackpool explores photographic depictions over the past century. The photos, selected by German artist, Nina Könnemann, include images from the Mass Observation project of the 1930s, agency-shots and private happy-snaps. Grundy Art Gallery's curator, Stuart Tulloch, tells Kirsty what the pictures reveal about the essence of Blackpool.
WC Fields once advised performers never to work with children or animals. Jim Carrey is the latest actor to ignore this warning. In his new film comedy, Mr Popper's Penguins, he plays a hapless businessman who inherits six penguins. But are penguins inherently comic? Film critic Adam Smith considers animal-typecasting in films.
Producer Jack Soper.
Viktoria Mullova and Matthew Barley
The Peasant Girl is available now on CD.
Viktoria Mullova and Matthew Barley perform at BBC Proms 45 and 46 on 18 August 2011.
Anna Fox
Anna Fox, Ocean Hotel
Mass Photography: Blackpool Through The Camera
The South Pier Box Office
Untitled from the series South Pier Box Office, by Geoff Buono.
Blackpool Beach, 1903
Blackpool Beach, 1903.
Courtesy Blackpool Local and Family History Centre.
The Tree
The Tree is in selected cinemas from Friday 5 August 2011 and will be available on DVD in October 2011.
Chapters
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the musical partnership of violinist Viktoria Mullova and cellist Matthew Barley, whose new disc draws on folk and jazz traditions.
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
A new exhibition in Blackpool explores photographic depictions over the past century.
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Chapter 5
WC Fields once advised performers never to work with children or animals. Jim Carrey is the latest actor to ignore this warning. Film critic Adam Smith considers animal-typecasting in films.
Broadcast
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Thu 4 Aug 201119:15




