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15 June 2004
Presented by Mark Lawson
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PLAYWRIGHT'S PLAYWRIGHT
If you were given the choice of any play to direct what would you chose? Playwrights Joe Penhall and Mark Ravenhill discuss their selection with Mark Lawson.
Playwright's Playwright - a series of rehearsed readings is at the Royal Court Theatre beginning 4pm 16 June to 17 July with Bertold Brecht's The Mother
BILL CLINTON'S PORTRAIT
What's it like to paint someone who's been the most powerful man in the world? Mark Lawson talks to Simmie Knox who was commissioned to paint the official White House portrait of Bill Clinton.
BBC News: Clintons' new portrait unveiled
GILES GILBERT SCOTT
Giles Gilbert Scott was the designer of the GPO red telephone box and the power stations at Bankside and Battersea. 100 years ago he began building the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool. To celebrate its centenary the artists Ewan Forster and Christopher Heighes have created an installation in the bell tower. Bob Dickinson reports.
Trans Mittere in the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool is on until July 10th. You can tune in to the radio broadcasts in Liverpool on 1413 kHz medium wave
Liverpool Cathedral - Events
CHARLES PARKER ARCHIVE
A 20 year project to make available to the public the thousands of hours of tapes recorded by the radio producer Charles Parker has come to fruition with the opening of the archive at the Central Library in Birmingham. Gillian Reynolds, Radio Critic of the Daily Telegraph and Chairman of the Charles Parker Archive talks to Mark Lawson
The Charles Parker Archive is housed at the Central Library in Birmingham
Charles Parker Archive
SIMON KERNICK
Crime writer Simon Kernick talks to Mark Lawson about his third book The Crime Trade, and how he researches his novels by talking to policemen and criminals.
The Crime Trade is published by Bantam Press
BBC: Crime writers
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