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26 August 2004
Presented by Mark Lawson
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PG WODEHOUSE
Wodehouse: A Life is the latest and fullest biography of the author of Jeeves and Wooster novels. Mark Lawson talks to the biographer Robert McCrum who argues that Wodehouse's wartime disgrace - when he was denounced for giving a series of radio talks transmitted from Berlin - resulted from the naïve and optimistic temperament created in his childhood.
Wodehouse: A Life, by Robert McCrum is published in hardback by Viking Press and will be read as the Book of the Week on Radio 4 starting on Monday 30 August at 9.45am
BOOKER PRIZE LONGLIST
Chris Smith - chair of the Booker prize judging panel discussees the longlist for 2004.
JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS PRIZE HAS NEW SPONSORS
Last year the author Hari Kunzru refused to accept the award when he was announced as the winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys prize. Martyn Goff - a trustee - explains why the Mail on Sunday is no longer sponsoring the prize and it has been taken over by Booktrust.
ANDY WARHOL
How a town in Slovakia is celebrating Warhol and Estonia is home to a Charlie Chaplin museum.
Email us with any other museums which have a tenuous local celebrity connection.
DOES DVD STAND FOR DELICIOUSLY VARIED DATA OR DISASTROUS VALUE DEAL?
Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut is a DVD which restores many scenes which weren't shown when the film opened in cinemas. The Bourne Identity DVD includes alternative opening and closing sequences. Kim Newman and Joe Cornish debate the value of DVDs.
Donnie Darko: The Directors Cut is out now as a DVD
NATASHA WALTER ON WOMEN TV PRESENTERS
This week Gaby Logan has become the first full-time peak-time female football presenter on tv. Natasha Walter considers this broadcasting landmark.
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