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27 January 2005
Presented by Kirsty Lang
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Architect Will Alsop and the SuperCity exhibition at Urbis
Will Alsop talks to Mark Lawson about his vision for a new Northern SuperCity stretching from Liverpool to Hull, the financiall fallout for his firm after losing the commission to build "the Fourth Grace" on Liverpool's waterfront and why he thinks a lot of his architectural colleagues are rubbish.
SuperCity runs at Urbis in Manchester until May 15th.
Other architectural news:
The architect Philip Johnson has died aged 98. Tate Modern plans to expand its exhibition space by 60%
William Orpen
The painter William Orpen was haunted by his experiences as an official war artist – a new show featuring his portraits of society women, soldiers and himself, is reviewed by critic Richard Cork
View the Front Row gallery of this show
William Orpen: Politics, Sex and Death opened at the Imperial War Museum today and runs until May 2nd
Creep and filming on the London Underground
With the release of the film Creep, set around London Underground, Mark Lawson explores the labyrinth of tunnels that make up the tube system and the rules for filming there, talking to Kate Reston from London Underground, the writer of Hidden City Stephen Poliakoff and the director of Creep Christopher Smith
Creep is released in cinemas across the country on Friday certificate 18.
Books by War Criminals
In Serbia the latest literary trend is fiction by war criminals. A novel about the Bosnian war by Milorad Ulimek – under the pen-name Legia – has sold 70,000 copies in Belgrade. The author is Serbia’s most notorious nationalist paramilitary. Mark Lawson discusses this and other current titles with the BBC's correspondent Matt Prodger.
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