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Errol Flynn/ Acropolis Museum/ Dominique Moisi/ Roger McGough

Matthew Sweet talks to screen icon Olivia de Havilland about Errol Flynn, classicist Mary Beard reports from the Acropolis Museum in Athens and Roger McGough discusses Moliere.

Matthew Sweet marks the 100th birthday of an icon of cinema, Errol Flynn, by talking to another one - Flynn's one-time co-star Olivia de Havilland. She takes Matthew on a lyrical and personal journey into a bygone age of cinema.

Classicist Mary Beard reports from the opening of the Acropolis museum in Athens, asking whether the gleaming new building changes a very old debate about the return of the Elgin Marbles, which are kept at the British Museum.

Leading French geopolitical thinker Dominique Moisi explains why international relations should be understood not as the exchange of economics, armies and power projection, but as an arena of emotion - of humiliation, hope and of fear.

And poet Roger McGough discusses his recently-discovered admiration for the 17th-century French playwright and humorist, Moliere.

45 minutes

Last on

Thu 18 Jun 2009 21:15

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