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Tuesday 23 July

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TUESDAY 23 JULY
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LEO MCKERN
Rumpole of the Bailey creator Sir John Mortimer pays tribute to actor Leo McKern who played Rumpole on screen who died today aged 82.
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SUNSHINE STATE
Chris Tookey joins Mark Lawson to discuss Sunshine State, written and directed by John Sayles.

Sunshine State is released on Friday, Certificate 15.
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SAS: EMBASSY SIEGE
Defence expert Paul Beaver joins Mark Lawson in discussing BBC TWO's controversial programme SAS: Embassy Siege - the inside story of the six-day siege of the Iranian Embassy in London that took place in May 1980.

SAS: Embassy Siege is on BBC TWO, Thursday 25 July at 9pm.
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DISNEY
David Gritten and Alan Frank discuss whether the newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, was right to attack Disney's merchandising practises.
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RUDE ART
As the Ashmolean museum in Oxford tries to save a plate decorated with penis images, David Ekserdjian from Apollo art magazine discusses the history of rudeness in art.
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