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20 January 2005
Presented by Mark Lawson
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The Singh Twins
The artists Amrit and Rabindra KD Kaur Singh discuss their art and the limits on the role of the artist with Mark Lawson as they prepare for a major retrospective in the city they grew up in.
Past and Modern runs at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool from Saturday 22nd January until 17 April.
Villages
Fay Weldon reviews John Updike's 21st novel, Villages, which centres on Owen Mackenzie - an American man in his 70s - as he reflects on all the women he has slept with, from the Depression to the First Bush administration.
Villages by John Updike is published by Hamish Hamilton on February 3rd.
Alex Kapranos
The front man of Glasgow rock band Franz Ferdinand, winners of the Mercury Music Prize, talks to Mark Lawson about why rock bands deserve more support.
Alex Kapranos will be taking part in the Edinburgh Lecture series at the University of Edinburgh's Reid Hall on February 2nd.
Richard Wentworth
The sculptor and photographer Richard Wentworth shows Mark Lawson around his new exhibition.
Richard Wentworth runs at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool from 21st January until April 24th.
From romantic hero to hardboiled detective
As CC Humphreys publishes a novel which uses the character of Jack Absolute from Sheridan's The Rivals as its swashbuckling star, Mark Lawson talks to the author and Michael Jecks, Chairman of the Crime Writers Association about transforming the most unlikely of characters into detectives.
The Blooding of Jack Absolute by CC Humphreys is out now, published by Orion
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