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Marilyn Monroe at 100

Marilyn Monroe at 100, George Michael's biography, Courtney Pine, Maureen Duffy tribute.

On what would have been her 100th birthday, we look at the enduring popularity of Marilyn Monroe, with film journalist and fan Kim Morgan and reviewer Angie Errigo

Sathnam Sanghera talks about the meaning of George Michael.

Jazz legend and saxophonist Courtney Pine talks about his career, forty years after his seminal debut album Journey to the Urge Within.

And poet Joelle Taylor, author of Maryville and TS Eliot Prize-winning collection C+nto & Othered Poems, pays tribute to writer and activist Maureen Duffy - one of the first publicly "out" lesbian women, who has died aged 92.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed

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