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Radio 4,01 Jul 2014,30 mins
Pet Shop Boys, Ian Hislop on Great Britain, Romesh Gunesekera, ENO cuts
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Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe discuss their ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ late-night Prom which includes the world premiere of A Man From the Future, about Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing; Private Eye editor Ian Hislop reviews last night's opening of the Richard Bean play Great Britain starring Billie Piper, which deals with Leveson and the phone-hacking affair; English National Opera's Artistic Director John Berry on today's announcement of Arts Council cuts in funding; and Romesh Gunesekera on Noontide Toll, his new collection of related stories which deal with the effects of Sri Lanka's civil war.
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