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14 June 2004
Presented by Mark Lawson
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PHILIP GLASS
Mark Lawson talks to the celebrated American composer Philip Glass about his piece Orion, commissioned for the Athens Olympics, which brings together musicians from many different cultures.
Philip Glass official website
THE COMA BY ALEX GARLAND
The new novel from the author of bestselling book The Beach, Alex Garland, tells the story of Carl, who is recovering from being in a coma. Literary critic Alex Clark joins Mark Lawson to review this book and two others which deal with people in a coma - The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen and Don't Move by Margaret Mazzantini.
CONFIDENCES TROP INTIMES
Nigel Andrews, film critic of the Financial Times discusses Confidences Trop Intimes, the new film by Patrice Leconte director of Monsieur Hire and L'Homme du Train.
Confidences Trop Intimes is released on Friday 18 June, certificate 15.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE POP
At number 3 in the charts this week is Dragostea Din Tei, by O-Zone which is sung in Romanian. For Front Row, David Quantick looks at the history of British chart hits sung in foreign languages.
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