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TUESDAY 18 NOVEMBER
Presented by Mark Lawson
TAKING SIDES
A new film from the writer of The Pianist based on the life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, controversial conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. Mark Lawson talks to conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner about Taking Sides, investigating Furtwangler's links with the Nazi regime.
'Taking Sides' opens Friday 21 November across the UK
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GAS, FOOD & LODGING
As cars started to multiply and road travel increased, all types of businesses sprung up along the highways to cater to these motorists. Front Row asks whether the American Roadside Gas Stations, Diners and Motels of the fifties and sixties should be preserved.
Book: American Roadside Architecture, photography by John Margolies, a cultural presentation of the U.S.A.
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SLAB BOYS
The Traverse, Scotland's acclaimed centre of new writing, and original home of The Slab Boys plans to re-stage this entire seminal trilogy about teenagers in the 1950s and 60s as the culmination of their 40th anniversary celebrations. Play written by John Byrne.
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See Traverse website for further details and performance dates and times
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COLUMN: CROWD NOISES
Dave Hepworth reflects on the audiences for live gigs and how they have continued to change over the years.
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