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25 November 2004
Presented by Mark Lawson
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My House In Umbria
Novelist Margaret Forster and Mark Lawson review the film My House In Umbria, based on William Trevor's novella. It stars Maggie Smith as a lady with a past, who plays hostess to fellow survivors of a terrorist train bomb; the supporting cast includes Timothy Spall and Ronnie Barker.
"My House In Umbria" is released in key cities on Friday 26 November, certificate 12A
I'm in a jungle - get me my husband!
Snakes, koalas and married quarters in the jungle….Laura Lee Davies analyses the latest TV tactics as Vic Reeves joins his wife Nancy Sorrell on "I'm A Celebrity Get me Out of Here"
Nightly coverage of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here continues on ITV 1 & 2 until Monday 6th December - and there's also 24-hour internet access.
The Earthly Paradise
Fiona McCarthy and Mark Lawson review Peter Whelan's new play about a notorious Pre-Raphaelite love triangle.
"The Earthly Paradise" is at the Almeida Theatre, London until 08 January 2005
Chat-shows will eat themselves
On the night that Michael Parkinson appears as a guest on Frank Skinner's ITV1 chat-show - Front Row charts the incestuous nature of television chat-shows…
The Frank Skinner Show is on ITV1 on Thursdays at 11pm
Unfilmable books
Radio 3's Sunday drama this weekend is Nabokov's "Pale Fire", a novel which has been called unfilmable. Novelist Michael Arditi considers whether a book can ever be "unfilmable"…..
"Pale Fire", by Vladimir Nabokov is on Radio 3 on Sunday 28 November, at 8pm
Offensive lyrics…..
Following the news that a chain of record stores in New Zealand is refusing to display the latest Eminem album because of "violent and pornographic lyrics" - and also that Brighton & Hove City Council is debating whether to ask local record shops to refuse to sell reggae cds with homophobic lyrics - Mark Lawson, Genaro Castaldo of the HMV chain and Simon Dorman of Virgin discuss the way record stores deal with controversial performers
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