FR: Tamsin Greig; Stephen Fry; Seamus Heaney tribute

09/06/13 • 64 min

Actress Tamsin Greig; Stephen Fry on Verdi and Wagner; Edna O'Brien, Colm Toibin, Michael Longley and Hermione Lee pay tribute to Seamus Heaney; reggae group UB40; comedians Nadia Kamil and Mary Bourke on how to make feminism funny.

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FR: Marin Alsop, Simon Schama, Franz Ferdinand

Mark Lawson talks to Marin Alsop, the first woman to conduct the Last Night of the Proms; writers Ruth Rendell and Jeanette Winterson discuss their friendship at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival; Philip French puts away his pen after being The Observer's film critic for 50 years; Scottish playwright and artist John Byrne talks about his new mural for the King's Theatre in Edinburgh; film director Nic Roeg looks back at his career, sex scenes and more in the light of his newly-published memoir; historian Simon Schama discusses the challenge of bringing his latest project The Story of the Jews to television; and Scottish band Franz Ferdinand are back with a new album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action.

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FR: Lee Evans; Man Booker Prize; Manic Street Preachers

Comedian Lee Evans; the Man Booker Prize shortlist; Nicky Wire from Manic Street Preachers; Cillian Murphy on TV drama Peaky Blinders; the final book in Patrick Leigh Fermor's travel trilogy; Dennis Kelly who wrote the book for the hit musical Matilda and created the cult Channel 4 series Utopia.