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On Midweek this week:-
ALICE PATTEN
Alice Patten is an actress. She has appeared in the television costume dramas The Forsyte Saga and Charles II; and has recently made her film debut in a Bollywood movie.
She is currently starring as Ophelia in the English Touring Company's Production of Hamlet at The New Ambassador's Theatre in London. Box Office: 0870 060 6627.
BRIAN THOMPSON
Brian Thompson is a radio and television playwright, a biographer and a documentary film maker.
He has written about his unusual wartime childhood - as one of the few children actually to be sent into London during the blitz. Keeping Mum a Wartime Childhood is published by Atlantic Books, at £12.99.
STEPHEN DALE PETIT
Stephen Dale Petit is an American born blues guitarist. As a teenager he made his living playing in bands with musicians more than twice his age, but life on the road took its toll. He was one of the first official London Underground buskers.
His CD: Guitararama is released on 27 February 2006 on 333 Records.
DAVID GILBERT
David Gilbert's grandparents, the Lindmeyers, were a German Christian family of Jewish origin. After the Nazis came to power they sent their three children to England. In 1941, they were taken to a concentration camp in Minsk where they both died. A cache of their letters were kept in his aunt's attic. David has collated them into a book: A Thousand Kisses - The Letters of Georg and Frieda Lindemeyer to their children, 1937-1941, is published by Bloomsbury, at £15.99.
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