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WEDNESDAY 7 MAY
Presented by Mark Lawson
POETS and WRITERS
The British Library Sound Archive holds an unsurpassed collection of recordings of poets, and great writers of the first half of the 20th century, reading their own works. Poet & critic Peter Porter reviews the two new cds issued today which include many rare and unique extracts.
The Spoken Word: Poets, ISBN 0712305173 / The Spoken Word: Writers, ISBN 0712305165, are on sale through the British Library bookshop & online, plus bookshops across the UK
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HOPE SPRINGS
Mark Herman's romantic comedy Hope Springs stars Colin Firth as a heartbroken British Artist who goes to America to start over, after being dumped by his fiancée Minnie Driver. Catherine Shoard, Sunday Telegraph film critic, reviews.
Hope Springs is released at cinemas nationwide Friday 9 May 2003 Cert.12A
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THE LAST ENGLISHMAN
J.L.Carr was the most English of Englishmen, but he was also the author of half a dozen of the quirkiest, eccentric, most comic (and smallest) novels in English. Biographer Byron Rogers, with novelist D.J. Taylor and J.L.'s son Bob Carr, take a look at this one-man literary and publishing phenomenon.
The Last Englishman: The Life of J.L. Carr, by Byron Rogers Published 22 May 2003 Aurum Press, ISBN: 1854108387, and J.L. Carr's Pocket Dictionaries are available from The Quince Tree Press
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GROSS-OUT GROWS UP?
Joe Queenan asks...are gross-out films growing up? With the release this week of the film Old School in which 2 men in their 30's try to recapture the glory of their college days by turning their home into a frat house.
Old School is released at cinemas nationwide, Cert.15 from Fri 9 May 2003
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THOMAS RUFF
This is the first retrospective of German artist Thomas Ruff, one of the most acclaimed and ground-breaking photographers working today. Guardian photographer Eamon McCabe reviews the exhibition.
Thomas Ruff: 1979 to the Present, Tate Liverpool, 9 May to 6 July 2003
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RELATED LINKS
BRITISH LIBRARY Website
TATE MUSEUM Liverpool: THOMAS RUFF
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