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THURSDAY 17 JULY
Presented by Mark Lawson
OBITUARY: CAROL SHIELDS
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Carol Shields has died after a long battle with breast cancer at the age of 68. One of Canada's best-known contemporary authors, Shields was noted for her books about the lives of ordinary people, especially women, as portrayed in her pulitzer prize-winning novel, The Stone Diaries. Peter Kemp pays tribute.
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LANG LANG
Mark Lawson speaks with the talented young Chinese pianist Lang Lang. At just 21, he's signed an exclusive recording deal, his first disc is out soon and he'll be opening the Proms 2003 tomorrow night.
CD: Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor (plus Mendelssohn's first piano concerto) available end July 2003 on Deutsche Grammophon
At the Proms Opening night at Albert Hall, Fri 18 July 2003, which can also be heard live at 7.30pm on 大象传媒 Radio 3
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FILM BREAKS
Film director Quentin Tarantino is said to be releasing his next movie Kill Bill in two parts because he can't cut it down below 3 hours. Film historian John Huntley, Variety theatre critic Matt Wolf and 大象传媒 Controller of TV Drama, Jane Tranter, look at how art is split in two and the history of the intermission.
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SUMMER READS:
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
Continuing our series of recommendations on what to read or re-read this summer, William Dalrymple offers his suggestions:
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt, published by Vintage
The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos, published by Papermac
The History of the Crusades by Steven Runciman, published by Penguin in 3 volumes
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