09/06/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Derren Brown and a discussion on the art of writing history, with Margaret MacMillan and Lady Antonia Fraser.
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson.
The showman and illusionist Derren Brown can seemingly predict and control human behaviour. He discusses his mix of suggestion, psychology and misdirection and tells Mark Lawson about a very different skill, as a caricature artist.
Has history been taken over by amateurs? Forty years ago, Lady Antonia Fraser published the biography 'Mary, Queen of Scots'. As a new edition of the biography is released, she discusses the writing of history with Margaret MacMillan, whose recently published The Uses and Abuses of History analyses popular fascination with history.
Film critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Mark Eccleston review three very different films: John Woo's Red Cliff, an epic set during the end of the Han Dynasty; the documentary The End of the Line, which exposes the negative effects of fishing on the world's oceans; and The Hangover, a comedy about a stag night set in Las Vegas.
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Antonia Fraser and Margaret MacMillan discuss writing history
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- Tue 9 Jun 2009 19:15麻豆社 Radio 4 FM
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