Jenna Russell, Mark Umbers and Gary Kemp
Musical theatre stars Jenna Russell and Mark Umbers drop by to talk about Merrily We Roll Along and author Sophie Kinsella talks to Claudia about her new book, Wedding Night.
Musical theatre stars Jenna Russell and Mark Umbers drop by to talk about Merrily We Roll Along
Author Sophie Kinsella talks to Claudia about her new book Wedding Night
Musician Gary Kemp takes us on a tour of the David Bowie Is exhibition at the V&A
Actor Luke Treadaway stops by ahead of this Sunday's Oliviers to talk about his Best Actor nomination for The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time.
Plus Peter Bradshaw has all the latest film news and cinema releases; Michael Billington reviews the latest theatre and Anna Bailey rounds up the next seven days of arts news from around the country.
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Jenna Russell and Mark Umbers talk about Merrily We Roll Along
Jenna Russell and Mark Umbers have achieved quite a resume of stage and screen credits between them鈥︹.Guys and Dolls, Sweet Charity, Sunday In The Park With George, The Glass Menagerie to name just a few.听 Now they鈥檙e taking to the stage in the revival of Sondheim鈥檚 Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter Theatre.
You can see Jenna听and Mark听in Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London until the end of July.
Luke Treadaway talks about The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
When nominations for the Olivier Awards were announced by Ruth Wilson and Elaine Paige live on Radio 2, the National Theatre鈥檚 production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time led the field with eight nominations - including a Best Actor nod for its star - Luke Treadaway.听 The hit play is based on the best selling book about an autistic teenager who鈥檚 a genius with numbers.听 So it鈥檚 doubly impressive that Luke鈥檚 up for the award as he鈥檚 the first to admit he was 鈥渁wful鈥 at maths at school.
You can see Luke in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time at The Apollo Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue until the end of August.
Peter Bradshaw talks about the latest film releases
The Look Of Love
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Steve Coogan, Anna Friel, Imogen Potts, Tamsin Egerton
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Steve Coogan stars in the true-life story of Paul Raymond, the man behind Soho鈥檚 notorious Raymond Revue Bar and Men Only magazine. In this latter-day King Midas story, Raymond becomes one of the richest men in Britain 鈥 at the cost of losing those closest to him.
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The Look Of Love is certificate 18, out now
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Iron Man 3
听Director: Shane Black
Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall
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When Tony Stark's personal world is brought crashing down at the hands of his arch-nemesis, the Mandarin, he sets out on a harrowing quest to take revenge, relying on his own ingenuity to protect himself and those closest to him. The chips are down, but he fights his way back up in a journey that leads him to answer the question that has been quietly haunting him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
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Iron Man 3 is certificate 12A, in cinemas now
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In The Fog
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Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Cast:听 Vladimir Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin, Vlad Ivanov
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Set on the Western frontiers of the USSR in 1942, two soldiers are ordered to kill a suspected collaborator. The innocent suspect desperately tries to save his honour. Faced with his enemies deep in an old forest, where there is no difference between treason and heroism, the main character has to try to make a moral choice in rather trying circumstances.
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In The Fog is certificate 12A, in cinemas now
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听Billy Liar 鈥 50th anniversary re-issue (DVD & blu-ray)
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Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne, Ethel Griffies
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Undertaker's clerk Billy (Tom Courtenay) escapes his dreary small town existence in a 1950s Northern town by living in a fantasy world where he realises his ambitions. When his job, unsympathetic working class family and two fiancees threaten to become too much, he meets fashionable Julie Christie, who offers him his one chance for real escape.
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Billy Liar, the 50th anniversary re-issue is out now on DVD and blu-ray.
Sophie Kinsella talks about her new book, Wedding Night
Sophie Kinsella wrote her first novel under her real name, Madeleine Wickham, whilst working as a financial journalist. The Tennis Party was immediately hailed as a success by critics and the public alike and became a top ten bestseller.听 She published 6 more novels as Madeleine Wickham before racing into the UK bestseller lists in September 2000 - as Sophie Kinsella this time - with her first novel in the Shopaholic series.听 Eleven number one bestselling novels later her new book 鈥 called Wedding Night 鈥 is about a marriage pact between old friends.
Michael Billington's latest selection of theatre
Othello at the Olivier
This is a real hot ticket. It's got Adrian Lester as the Moor and Rory Kinnear as Iago who, of course, plays on Othello's insecurity to destroy him. Nicholas Hytner directs and, as with most of his recent Shakespeares, sets the action in today's world.
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Othello runs at the Olivier until late summer and is broadcast live to cinemas on September 28.
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Children Of The Sun at the Lyttelton
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It's a busy time for the National. This is a play by the Russian, Maxim Gorky, written in 1905 just after the Tsar's troops had massacred a group of peaceful protestors. But Gorky is writing about the middle-classes who keep their heads in the sand even in a time of chaos.
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Children of the Sun is at the Lyttelton until July 14.
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听The Empress at The Swan, Stratford on Avon
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This is a new play by Tanika Gupta about the little-known subject of Victorian Asians. We see Abdul Karim coming to England in 1887 to be Queen Victoria's Hindi teacher and, at the same time, the 16-year-old Rani trying to scrape a living in England as a children's nanny.
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The Empress runs at The Swan in Straford-on-Avon until May 4.
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听The Breadwinner at the Orange Tree, Richmond
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Somerset Maugham was a popular playwright as well as novelist. This play, written in 1930, is about a stockbroker who can't meet his financial claims and who decides the only thing to do is walk out on both the City and his family.
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The Breadwinner is at the Orange Tree Richmond until May 18.
Anna Bailey's Arts Round-Up
CLASSICAL MUSIC:听 Scottish Chamber Orchestra with a concert dedicated to the composer Benjamin Britten at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh
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CONTEMPOARY ART:听 Lynn Chadwick: Evolution in Sculpture a new exhibition at the Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Blackwell, the Arts and Crafts House in the Lake District
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BALLET:听 English National Ballet and English National Ballet School team up to present My First Cinderella at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley and then the New Theatre in Oxford, The Hawth in Crawley and The Opera House in Manchester.
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THEATRE FESTIVAL: High Tide Festival in Suffolk with 45 different productions being performed and read. David Hare is the festival patron or THEATRE: The Kite Runner at the Nottingham Playhouse adapted from Khaled Hussein鈥檚 award winning novel.
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TRADITIONAL ART: Masterpieces from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg open to the public at the Houghton Hall in Norfolk
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JAZZ: Cheltenham Jazz Festival from the 1-6 May 2013
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FILM: The Science Fiction Film Festival in London
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MUSICAL THEATRE:听 ONCE, the Tony award winning musical at the Phoenix Theatre in London
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- Fri 26 Apr 2013 22:00麻豆社 Radio 2