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Kingsley Amis, Compton Verney, Incendies, Emma Rothschild, Ai Weiwei

Rana Mitter and critic Peter Kemp discuss Kingsley Amis as four of his works become Penguin Classics. And Rana visits Compton Verney to see Stanley Spencer's garden paintings.

Four of Kingsley Amis' works and a collection of his short stories are published this month in Penguin Classics. Rana Mitter and critic Peter Kemp discuss the impact of Amis' work today.

Compton Verney in Warwickshire is a Georgian house with a Capability Brown garden. From Saturday to October it will be the home of an exhibition of Stanley Spencer's garden paintings. Rana and art critic Richard Cork take a walk around the exhibition.

Joan Smith reviews Incendies, a Canadian film about a pair of twins piecing together their mother's life in Lebanon after she dies. It was shortlisted in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars.

Rana talks to historian Emma Rothschild about her new book, The Inner Life of Empires: an Eighteenth Century History, which has at its heart one family, the Johnstones.

And the latest on the release of the Chinese artist, Ai Wei Wei.

45 minutes

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Thu 23 Jun 2011 22:00

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