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  1. Start the Week 06/07/2009

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    Andrew Marr talks to Arundhati Roy, Timothy Garton Ash, Karen Armstrong and Hermione Lee.

  2. Front Row 09/06/2009

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    Including an interview with Derren Brown and a discussion on the art of writing history.

  3. Great Lives Series 18, Fred Astaire

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    7/8. Dr Michael O'Donnell discusses celebrated singer, actor and choreographer Fred Astaire.

  4. In Our Time Thoreau and the American Idyll

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    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.

  5. In Our Time WB Yeats and Irish Politics

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    Melvyn Bragg discusses the poet W.B. Yeats and Irish politics.

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