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Lang Lang, Diana Rigg remembered, Cinema distribution under Covid-19

Mark Gatiss on Diana Rigg, and Lang Lang discusses Bach's Goldberg Variations at the piano.

Diana Rigg has died aged 82. Her breakthrough role was as Mrs Emma Peel in The Avengers, going on to have a distinguished career across film, theatre and television with roles including as a Bond Girl in Her Majesty's Secret Service, Lady Macbeth at the National Theatre and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones. Charles Dance remembers the actress alongside Mark Gatiss who wrote an episode of Doctor Who for Diana especially.

On the line from Beijing, Chinese pianist Lang Lang discusses his new recordings of Bach鈥檚 Goldberg Variations, the culmination of a 20-year musical journey for the musician. One version was recorded in the studio, the other in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany, where Bach worked and is buried.

Cinemas have faced huge disruption through this pandemic - closing and now re-opening, so how have film distributors managed to get their movies seen? Kirsty asks film producer Julie Baines and Hamish Moseley of the independent distributor Altitude whether the altered landscape of the cinema industry is here for good.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Hannah Robins
Studio Manager: Emma Harth

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Lang Lang

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Lang Lang's recording of is out now.
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Diana Rigg Remembered

Diana Rigg Remembered
Image: Dame Diana Rigg

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