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TUESDAY 24 JUNE
Presented by Mark Lawson
THE ART OF CHESS
The Art of Chess features nineteen chess sets in an examination of art's fascination with the game. On display is a 1905 Fabergé creation to newly commissioned designs by Damien Hirst (pictured) and Maurizio Cattelan. Jake and Dinos Chapman discuss their own contribution to the exhibition.
The Art of Chess is at the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House from 28th June to 28th September
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FORTY SOMETHING
Dave Hill, author of Dad's Life joins Front Row to discuss
Fortysomething, ITV's new comedy drama series starring Hugh Laurie and Anna Chancellor as a married couple beset by the perils of middle-age.
Fortysomething starts on ITV 1 this Sunday at 9pm
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LEON URIS
The biographer and broadcaster Michael Freedland joins Front Row for a tribute to the American novelist Leon Uris who has died aged 78. Uris's best-selling book Exodus was a depiction through fiction of the creation of the state of Israel.
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GOD IN THE MOVIES
As Morgan Freeman in the Jim Carrey film Bruce Almighty becomes the latest actor to play God, we look at who has played God in the movies and how.
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NAKED DANCE
Theatre critic Michael Billington discusses the ASA ruling that a leaflet advertising a Sadler's Wells dance performance was misleading "because the images did not resemble the actual performance".
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