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As the final Cultural Exchange Armando Iannucci chooses the Woody Allen film Stardust Memories. Also there are BBC archive interviews with Woody Allen and Armando Iannucci. Plus, as a bonus, presenters Mark Lawson and John Wilson also reveal their picks for the Cultural Exchange.BBC Radio 4
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Riz Ahmed chooses the video game Street Fighter II, which was released in arcades in 1991. Plus related clips from the BBC archive, including rapper Bashy joins 1Xtra's J.M.E for a Street Fighter II battle, interviews with games writers Naomi Alderman and Rhianna Pratchett, games designer Paul Bennun and composer Joris De Man. Also Riz Ahmed himsel…
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C J Sansom - author of the historical crime series Shardlake – picks the first incarnation of the Doctor in the Doctor Who, William Hartnell. Plus archive interviews with Verity Lambert, Tom Baker and William Hartnell's granddaughter Jessica Carney.BBC Radio 4
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Artist Conrad Shawcross chooses one of the 250 pictures in the waterlilies series dated after 1916, by Claude Monet. Plus an archive interview with Sir Gerald Kelly who met Monet in 1902 and the English Head Gardener at Monet's house at Giverny.BBC Radio 4
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Author Pat Barker chooses Benjamin Britten's song cycle Who Are These Children? Plus archive interviews with Britten and Gladys Parr, a masterclass in performing the piece by Peter Pears - and a recent Front Row discussion with the singer Ian Bostridge and the Guardian columnist Martin Kettle on dealing with the composer’s dramatisation of and fasc…
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Penelope Curtis, Director at Tate Britain, chooses the buildings designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon at the University of Leeds. Plus archive interviews with Dame Judi Dench and architects Peter and Alison Smithson. Go to Front Row’s Cultural Exchange website for full details.BBC Radio 4
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Actor and musician Clarke Peters – best-known for his TV roles in the Wire and Treme – chooses They Came Before Columbus, the bestselling 1970s book by Dr Ivan Van Sertima, that porposed a new interpretation of African American ancestry.BBC Radio 4
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The former Children’s Laureate and author of The Gruffalo chooses American children’s writer Arnold Lobel whose books include the Frog and Toad series and Grasshopper on the Road. Plus Sam West reads Lobel’s story ‘A List’ and there’s archive from Michael Rosen, Anthony Browne and Anne Fine.BBC Radio 4
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Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste chooses Miles Davis' 1959 album Kind of Blue. Plus archive interviews with drummer Jimmy Cobb and trumpeter Henry Lowther and archive features about the Miles Davis' early life and relationship with bebop pioneer Charlie Parker.BBC Radio 4
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Neil Gaiman chooses a painting by Richard Dadd – The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke. Plus archive interviews with Freddie Mercury and an extract from Angela Carter’s play based on the painting. Go to Front Row’s Cultural Exchange website for full details.BBC Radio 4
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For the Cultural Exchange, Paul Weller nominates The Zombies' Odessey And Oracle, an album which was indifferently received when it was released in 1968. Plus archive including with The Zombies, Paul Weller and Mark Radcliffe . Full details on Front Row’s Cultural Exchange website.BBC Radio 4
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Poet Gwyneth Lewis chooses the dance routine from Laurel and Hardy’s 1937 film Way Out West. Plus archive from about Laurel and Hardy’s 1932 and 1953 visits to Britain, and Roy Castle on their origins. Plus Gwyneth Lewis reads a poem. Full details on Front Row’s Cultural Exchange website.BBC Radio 4
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Author AL Kennedy chooses the 1985 TV drama Hitler’s SS: A Portrait of Evil. Plus archive interviews with Bill Nighy, Oliver Hirschbiegel and publishers and agents discussing the commercial success of books about Nazi Germany. Full details on Front Row's Cultural Exchange website.BBC Radio 4
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Mark Haddon, whose books include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, chooses The Uffington White Horse. Plus archive reports on the myths and legends surrounding the horse. Full details available at Front Row’s Cultural Exchange website.BBC Radio 4
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Kwame Kwei-Armah chooses Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984), a play by August Wilson (1945 - 2005) and the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience, The Pittsburgh Cycle. Presented by Mark Lawson.The interview is followed by selected clips from the BBC archive: August Wilson reflecting on his career; Ja…
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P. D. James chooses Philip Larkin's poem The Explosion, published in his final collection of poetry, High Windows. Presented by Mark Lawson.The interview is followed by selected clips from the BBC archive: Philip Larkin reading his poem The Explosion; Mark Lawson reports from Hull as the city prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of Larkin's death;…
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Mark Lawson offers a selection of highlights from the Cultural Exchange project so far. The compilation includes the choices of Tracey Emin, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Bernardo Bertolucci. Go to Front Row's Cultural Exchange website for more details.BBC Radio 4
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