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06 January 2005
Presented by John Wilson
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Is There Anything You Want? by Margaret Forster
Journalist Rosie Boycott joins John Wilson to review the new novel by Margaret Forster. Is There Anything You Want? is set around a breast cancer clinic and tells the story of the women connected to it.
Is There Anything You Want? is out now, published by Chatto and Windus.
Epstein Statues
In the 1930s a set of nude figures carved by Jacob Epstein and displayed on the outside of the former BMA building in the Strand in London were deliberately vandalised. Seventy years later, artist Neal White has come up with his own project in response to that vandalism. Neal White and art critic Richard Cork joined John Wilson on the Strand to tell the story of the Epstein statues.
The Third Campaign: A Project by Neal White is on at Leeds City Art Gallery from 8 January to 27 March 2005.
Nile Rodgers
John Wilson talks to Nile Rodgers, disco pioneer and founder of Chic who also produced songs for David Bowie, Diana Ross and Madonna.
Chic: Everybody Dance. The Politics of Disco by Daryl Easlea is out now published by Helter Skelter.
City of London Orchestra
Over Christmas, the newly formed Choir of London and its orchestra made a trip to Jerusalem and the West Bank for a series of concerts with musicians from both sides of the barrier . Conductor Jeremy Summerly made a diary of the journey.
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