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WEDNESDAY 14 JANUARY
Presented by Francine Stock
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
Art critic Laura Cumming reviews Peter Webber's film Girl with a Pearl Earring starring Colin Firth as the artist Vermeer and Scarlett Johansson as the servant girl Griet.
Girl with a Pearl Earring opens at cinemas around the country this Friday - certificate 12A
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JOHN LETHEM
Jonathan Lethem author of the prize-winning Motherless Brooklyn talks to Francine about his new semi-autiobiographical novel The Fortress of Solitude set in America in 1970s Brooklyn.
Jonathan Lethem's novel The Fortress of Solitude is published by Faber, ISBN 0571219330
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THE PRICE OF ITALIAN SATIRE
A member of Silvio Berlusconi's party, Forza Italia, is suing Dario Fo, Nobel winning playwright for 1 million Euros for defamation in his new play, The Two-Headed Anomaly. From Rome Tom Kington speculates on the price of Italian satire.
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REGENCY TOY THEATRES
A new exhibition is about to open at the Soane Museum in London in collaboration with Pollock's Toy Museum to celebrate the work of William West who in 1811 became the first toy theatre publisher. Front Row assesses the charms of the miniature stage with film critic and collector David Robinson and actor and collector Peter Baldwin.
William West and The Regency Toy Theatre is on at the Soane Museum in association with Pollock's Toy Museum. The exhibition runs from 16 Jan to 27 March at Sir John Soane's Museum in London. It will then go on tour round the country. Further information from Pollock's website below.
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COMIC REHAB
As a new series of the comedy sketch show Revolver returns with a parade of veteran performers such as John Inman, Cannon and Ball and Honor Blackman, Stephen Armstrong reflects on the phenomenon of new comedians rehabilitating the older ones.
Revolver, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One, Tuesdays at 11.05 pm
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