601 Tony Jordan and Ron Howard, plus Kurt Masur remembered2015-12-21 20:06:00
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602 Bette Midler, Neil MacGregor, Christmas ghost stories2015-12-19 06:55:00
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603 Star Wars, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Edith Piaf celebrated2015-12-17 20:14:00
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604 Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Roman poet Horace, Christmas TV2015-12-16 20:04:00
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605 We're Doomed, The Dazzle, The Waterstone's Book of the Year, The impact of touring musicals on original regional theatre2015-12-16 15:00:00
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606 Harry Price: Ghost Hunter, Poets as novelists, Rosie Hood, The Haunting of Hill House2015-12-15 20:00:00
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607 Grandma, Val Wood, Theatrical wigs, Best stand-up comedy DVDs2015-12-11 19:59:00
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Grandma, Val Wood, Theatrical wigs, Best stand-up comedy DVDs

Lily Tomlin stars in the new comedy Grandma, playing a feisty grandmother who sets out to help her granddaughter raise the money for an abortion. Does such a storyline work as a comedy drama in today's America? Catherine Bray reviews the film. The writer Val Wood, who sets all her novels in East Yorkshire and is known as Hull's answer to Catherine Cookson, discusses her 21st novel Little Girl Lost, and how she didn't start writing novels until her 50s. The latest production of wonder.land at the National Theatre requires over 30 wigs. Giuseppe Cannas and his team explain how they designed them for this musical inspired by Alice In Wonderland and show other examples of their work. Continuing our search for the perfect Christmas gift, Stephen Armstrong offers his recommendations from this year's stand-up comedy DVDs. Presenter Kirsty Lang Producer Angie Nehring.…read more

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