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08 February 2005
Presented by Mark Lawson
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Turner Whistler Monet
Painter John Virtue and Mark Lawson discuss the new exhibition at Tate Britain - which explores themes and techniques shared by these three great innovative artists who reinvented landscape painting in the 19th century.
"Turner Whistler Monet" is at Tate Britain in London until May 15th
View an online gallery of images
"England's Lost Eden"
Noel Coward's biographer, Philip Hoare, talks to Mark Lawson about his latest book - which explores Victorian England's mania for spiritualism and tells the story of the strange nineteenth century sect The Girlingites, who set up a utopian commune in the New Forest, garnering support from American spiritualists and some of the English aristocracy.
"England's Lost Eden: the Quest for a Victorian Utopia" is published by 4th Estate at the end of February.
The Door In the Floor
Writer & Academic Diane Roberts and Mark Lawson review the film version of John Irving's best-selling novel, "A Widow For One Day", starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger.
"The Door In The Floor" is released in London and key cities nationwide on February 11th, certificate 15
Bush and Wolfe
Following the revelation that President George W Bush is currently reading, and thoroughly enjoying, the latest Tom Wolfe novel, "I Am Charlotte Simmons" - Mark Lawson and American writer & critic Gage McWeeny discuss whether Bush and Wolfe are odd bedfellows or fellow travellers in American politics.
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