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MONDAY 24 MARCH
Presented by Mark Lawson
THE OSCARS: BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
British-based playright Ronald Harwood won the Oscar last night for the best adapted screenplay for Roland Polanski's The Pianist. He joins Mark Lawson from Los Angeles to talk about the significance of working on the film and on his success.
'The Pianist' is still at UK cinemas
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DOUBLE BIOGRAPHIES
As books about Elizabeth & Mary and Hitler & Churchill are published, historians Juliet Gardiner and Anne Somerset join Mark Lawson to discuss whether it's an advantage for biographers to have double vision or whether it's just a publishing gimmick?
'Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens' by Jane Dunn, published by HarperCollins; ISBN: 0002571501, is Radio 4's Book of the Week next week, at 9.45 am
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PERSONAL VELOCITY
Novelist and critic Julie Myerson reviews the award-winning film Personal Velocity by Rebecca Miller, the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller. It examines the lives of three different women and stars Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey and Fairuza Balk.
'Personal Velocity' opens at selected cinemas this Friday, certificate 15
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ZLOTKIN AND SLATKIN
American conductor Leonard Slatkin's latest project is a BBC documentary about the Hollywood film-music composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold. It was a a composition premiered by his mother in 1934 and now played by his brother, cellist Frederick Zlotkin. Mark Lawson talks to Leonard and Frederick about this family saga straight out of Hollywood.
The documentary about Korngold and Hollywood music will be broadcast on BBC4 in the autumn. The music by the BBC Symphony Orchestra which has recorded on CD to be issued by BBC Music Magazine in the Autumn.
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ART ON MOUNT EVEREST
Mark Lawson talks to sculptor Oliver Barratt about his creation of the first-ever art-work on Mount Everest.
His sculpture can bee seen at Phetreche on Mount Everest in the Himalayas from about 10 April 2003.
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R4 Arts: Book of the Week
Everest Memorial Trust website
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