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Eastward Ho! Towards a new London?

The Mermaid Theatre reopens, rebuilt along with swathes of the London skyline

Review of Eastwood Ho!, a Jacobean romp revamped as a musical at the Mermaid Theatre in the City of London, in an auditorium redesigned by architect Sir Richard Seifert, who discusses the architectural project. Ken Russell's new film, Altered States, follows scientist Eddie Jessup's experiements on himself and drug-induced waking dreams, evoked by extraordinary special effects. Nothing is what it appears to be in Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, that addresses the nature of fiction itself.

Presenter: Jim Hiley.

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29 minutes

大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project