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04 January 2005
Presented by John Wilson
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VERA DRAKE
Journalist Polly Toynbee reviews Vera Drake the new film from director Mike Leigh which won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice film Festival. Set in 1950, Imelda Staunton plays Vera Drake, a kindly cleaning lady who has a secret life performing illegal abortions for desperate young women.
Vera Drake is released on 7th January, certificate 12a
MICHELE ROBERTS
Novellist Michele Roberts talks about Catholicism, eroticism and describing delicious meals in her new book Reader I Married Him.
Reader I Married Him is published by Little Brown
EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2005
Cork is the European Capital of Culture 2005. John Wilson discusses what this means for the city with Mary McCarthy, Deputy Director of events and Mick Hannigan who has set up a separate group - Where's Me Culture? - to run an alternative festival.
CREATIVITY & SMOKING
And at the traditional point in the calendar for giving up smoking, artist Maggie Hambling, playwright Simon Grey and creator of television's The Smoking Room, Brian Dooley, reveal the relationship between their creativity and their cigarettes.
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