1481 Julianne Moore; Ed Miliband on the arts; Pinter premieres2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1482 Dr John; David Hare pays tribute to Mike Nichols; Composer John Adams2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1483 Election play The Vote, Anthony Doerr, WWII drama Home Fires, Samba reviewed2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1484 Hay Festival debate: Are we publishing too many books?2007-09-12 12:00:00
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Hay Festival debate: Are we publishing too many books?

With the Hay Literary Festival in full swing, Front Row asks the question "Do we publish too many books?" In front of a live audience, Samira and the panel discuss some of the pressing issues that face the publsihing industry today: has the emergence of digital books diluted the quality and undermined the value of books? Is self publishing a route to new and exciting authors or a path to derivative mediocrity? With so many authors, is it possible to make a living as a writer and are the writers who do make it representative of the diversity of modern Britain? Taking part: Philip Jones editor of the trade journal The Bookseller, Crystal Mahey-Morgan Digital Sales and Marketing Director at Zed Books, Alexandra Pringle, the group editor in chief of Bloomsbury and Ali Sparks author of 41 books for children.…read more

1485 The Art of Book Cover Design2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1486 Unbroken, Young Fathers, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Miranda Richardson2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1487 Sondheim's Assassins, Albums of the year, Jeremy Deller, Royal Photographic Society2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1488 The Royals, Peggy Seeger, Sean Scully, Spring with Anna Meredith2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1489 Ben Elton, Queen Coal, Transmitting Andy Warhol, Leviathan, Birds in Literature2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1490 Boris on Churchill; Serena reviewed2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1491 Richard Ford; William Orbit; Kate Hewitt; Dylan Thomas's notebook2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1492 Idris Elba; Howard Hodgkin; V&A's Italian Courts2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1493 The Dark Horse, Sara Taylor, 70 Years of The Glass Menagerie2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1494 Christoph Waltz, Treasure Island, Mozart in the Jungle, Unread e-Books2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1495 Richard Linklater on Boyhood, Garrick Ohlsson on Scriabin2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1496 Timberlake Wertenbaker, Jupiter Ascending Reviewed, Reading Europe: France2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1497 The Drop; Jan Garbarek; Quentin Blake; Assaf Gavron2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1498 The rise and rise of Event Cinema2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1499 Trash, Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem, Andrew O'Hagan, Chilly Gonzales2007-09-12 12:00:00
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1500 Woolf Works, T C Boyle, Turner Prize shortlist, Andrew Motion, The Tribe2007-09-12 12:00:00
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