Episode 2

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The Culture Show, 2012/2013 Episode 2 of 32

Duration: 30 minutes

In this episode, comedian Alexei Sayle joins art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon at Tate Liverpool for an exhibition of later works from three of the greatest painters of the last 150 years: Turner, Monet and Twombly. Mark Kermode interrogates director William Friedkin about his new blackly comic film Killer Joe. Miranda Sawyer travels to the Eden Project in Cornwall to talk Matilda, musicals and megalomania with Tim Minchin. We have an exclusive extract from a lovingly restored print of Alfred Hitchcock's debut feature film with live music specially composed by Daniel Patrick Cohen; and James Runcie meets Richard Ford to explore the borderline between the ordinary and the criminal in his haunting new novel Canada.

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Credits

Series Producer
Emma Cahusac
Series Editor
Janet Lee
Presenter
Andrew Graham-Dixon
Presenter
Mark Kermode
Presenter
James Runcie
Presenter
Miranda Sawyer
Participant
Alexei Sayle
Participant
William Friedkin
Participant
Tim Minchin
Participant
Richard Ford
Producer
Hannah Robson

Broadcasts

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