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James Graham on Brian & Maggie, The Merchant of Venice, Live music from Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart

James Graham on Brian & Maggie, John Douglas Thompson on playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice as a black actor, and music from Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart.

Writer James Graham on his Channel 4 drama Brian & Maggie, which stars Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter, and which tells the story of a hard-hitting interview between broadcaster Brian Walden and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, which helped precipitate Thatcher's downfall in the early 1990s,

John Douglas Thompson talks about playing Shylock in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice as a black actor, in a production by Theatre for a New Audience which is at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre,

And live music from Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart, who have collaborated with Mary Chapin Carpenter on a new album, Looking for the Thread.

Presenter: Kate Molleson
Producer: Mark Crossan

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42 minutes

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