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2 June 2004
Presented by Mark Lawson
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ALEXANDER WALKER BEQUEST
The veteran film critic Alexander Walker, who died last year, spent a lifetime collecting Modern Art prints and drawings. Walker bequeathed his collection to the British Museum and 150 pieces are about to go on show there. Curator Stephen Coppell gives Mark Lawson a sneak preview of a very special private collection.
Matisse to Freud: A Critic's Choice is on at the British Museum from 15 June 2004 to 9 January 2005
British Museum: A Critic's Choice
MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
John Carey joins Mark Lawson to announce a major new fiction award, worth £60,000. The Man Booker International Prize will be awarded once every two years to a single author writing in English or whose work is generally available in translation.
The first winner will be announced in mid 2005
Man Booker International Prize
FILM GLUT
Nearly 40 films were released in Britain in May but how many of them were on in a cinema for more than a week? Mark Lawson asks Patrick Frater at Screen International and David Wilkinson of Guerilla films whether there are simply too many films coming out.
BBC: Films
MUSIC MEDALS
Mark Lawson speaks to the Chief Executive of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, Richard Morris, about Music Medals: a new way of assessing children's musical ability in schools
Music Medals will be introduced in schools from September 2004
NIETZSCHE
Julian Baggini, editor of The Philosophers Magazine, on why the late 19th century philosopher Nietzsche gets so many namechecks in popular culture.
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