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WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER
Presented by Francine Stock
PRIME SUSPECT
Writer, Lisa Appignanesi reviews ITV1's Prime Suspect in which Helen Mirren returns to her best-known role, the strong and sexy Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison.
Prime Suspect 6 - The Last Suspect, ITV1, Sunday 9 November, 9pm concluding on Monday at the same time
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NATIONAL BALLET OF CHINA
Front Row explores the devastating effect Mao's cultural revolution had on ballet in China and how the Chinese national ballet have since evolved to be one of the world's leading dance companies. With Lin Cunxin, author of Mao's Last Dancer, Dr Jackie Sheehan of Nottingham University who is writing a book on the Cultural Revolution, Madame Zhao Ruheng, the director of the National Ballet of China and dance critic, Clement Crisp.
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin, Fusion Press, is in the shops now.
The National Ballet of China is performing their new ballet Raise the Red Lantern at Sadler's Wells, London from the 11 - 15 November.
Morning Sun, a documentary about the Chinese cultural revolution is broadcast as part of Storyville on 91热爆4, Monday 10 November, 9.30 - 11.30pm
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MORTIFICATION
Embarrassing epsiodes in the lives of writers are chronicled in a new book, Mortification, edited by Robin Robertson who joins Francince Stock and writer, Deborah Moggach to discuss the stuff of authors' blushes.
Mortification is in bookshops now, published by Fourth Estate
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TRIBUTE TO CHARLES CAUSLEY
Poet and children's author, Michael Rosen, pays tribute to the poet, playwright and children's author, Charles Causley, whose death at the age of 86, has just been announced.
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