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29 November 2004
Presented by Mark Lawson
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The Merchant of Venice
Michael Radford discusses his new film version of The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino. He talks about rewriting the opening, the trouble with filming on boats in Venice and why a shot of raw meat and renaissance frescoes mean it may never be shown on American television.
Merchant of Venice certificate PG opens in cinemas around the country this Friday
Sports Book of the Year
John Inverdale reveals the sixteenth annual William Hill Sports Book of the Year has been won by Peter Oborne for Basil D'Oliveira, an account of cricket during the apartheid years in South Africa.
The other finalists were:
Matthew Pinsent: A Lifetime in a Race
Ricahrd Askwith Feet in the Clouds
John Carlin White Angels
Ed Smith On and Off the Field
Who buys play texts?
The publishers Faber are celebrating 75 years of publishing drama with a series of interviews at the National Theatre.
The Theatrical Bookshop and Publisher Samuel French which is the major supplier of play texts to amateur companies celebrates its 175th birthday in January.
Front Row investigates who buys play texts talking to Stephen Page - Chief Executive of Faber & Faber Ltd, Toby Radford - the Manager of the National theatre bookshop and Vivian Goodwin - the Managing Director French's Theatre bookshop.
Christopher Hampton will be talking at a National Theatre Platform event on Friday 03 December and Frank McGuinness on Monday 06 December
Nadime Gordimer's charity anthology Telling Tales
The Nobel prize winning writer Nadime Gordimer has edited an anthology of stories from writers including Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Updike, Woody Allen and Arthur Miller. The money raised will go to the Treatment Action Campaign in aid of HIV/Aids. One of the contributing authors Hanif Kureishi talks to Mark Lawson about this literary version of Band Aid.
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