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Setting the week's cultural agenda.
20 February 2006
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL spent almost 10 years working for Tony Blair, first as Press Secretary and then Director of Communications and Strategy, but in that time he apparently hardly used a computer, employing three people to sift his emails and writing replies in longhand. Nevertheless, he's written about the internet and politics for AOL.
In her new book LINDA GRANT attempts to understand the thoughts and attitudes of the Israelis, the people who live on the streets of Tel Aviv surrounded by the constant backdrop of popping guns: Iraqi shop-keepers, teenage soldiers, mob bosses, Tunisian-born settlers and Russian scientists. Linda Grant talks about Jewish national identity and the real people on the streets of Israel. The People on the Street is published by Virago.
NICK BROOMFIELD'S documentary style has earned him a reputation for being confrontational, uncompromising and questioning - but then, given his subject matter, it's no surprise. He's focused on the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, the relationship of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love and Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss. His latest film is a return to a subject he first covered 15 years ago - Eugene Terre'blanche, the South African white supremacist. As a More4 season of his films begins, he discusses the changes he's seen in South Africa and documentary making. His Big White Self will be shown on More4 on 27 February.
DBC PIERRE won the MAN Booker Prize with his first novel, Vernon God Little . It's a hard act to follow, but now, three years later, he has brought out his second novel, Ludmila's Broken English . He discusses its themes of East meets West, long-term border conflict and immigration. Ludmila's Broken English is published by Faber and Faber.
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