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Wim Wenders, London Road, Lucy Worsley, Marathons

Presented by Anne McElvoy. With director Wim Wenders on his new film, the play London Road, Lucy Worsley's new history of the home, and our fascination with long distance running.

Anne McElvoy talks to Wim Wenders about his new 3D film, a tribute to the great avant-garde choreographer Pina Bausch.

As the National Theatre mounts a musical play based on the serial murders in Ipswich in 2006, Anne talks to Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork about creating an work out of such a sensitive story.

Lucy Worsley discusses her new history of the home, If Walls Could Talk, revealing the bedroom secrets of the Georgians, and the bathroom habits of the Edwardians.

And on the eve of the London Marathon, Anne looks at our fascination with running as far as we can, with Matthew Parris, who holds the paliamentary marathon record, and Robin Harvie, who has written a book called Why We Run and is about to do the double marathon.

Producer: Timothy Prosser.

45 minutes

Last on

Thu 14 Apr 2011 21:15

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