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THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER
Presented by Mark Lawson
BURIED TREASURE
The first national exhibition of British archaeology in over 20 years will show how much chance discoveries over the centuries by the general public have revolutionised the understanding of our past. Mark Lawson discusses the Buried Treasure exhibition at the British Museum with curator Richard Hobbs and comedian Al Murray who dug up the past with Channel 4's Time Team.
Buried Treasure - Finding Our Past at the British Museum from 21 November - 14 March 2004 and then travels to 4 venues across the UK: The National Museums and Galleries of Wales Cardiff, The Manchester Museum, The Hancock Museum in Newcastle and The Norwich Castle Museum
A book, Treasure - Finding our Past by Curator Richard Hobbs accompanies the exhibition
See the Buried Treasures..
 Listen to the discussion
REMEMBERING JFK
On 22 November 1963, President John F Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Texas.
To mark the 40th anniversary of his assassination, music critic Michael White, theatre critic, Matt Wolf and Marin Alsop, conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra look at some of the music inspired by the life and death of JFK from Stravinsky to Sondheim.
Listen to the discussion
BUILDING NICKNAMES
Hugh Pearman, architecture correspondent of The Sunday Times joins Front Row to ask how unofficial names attach themselves to landmark buildings; Renzo Piano's proposed 66-storey London Bridge Tower has already been christened The Glass Shard by newspapers.
Listen to the discussion
AILEEN - THE LIFE AND DEATH
OF A SERIAL KILLER
Documentary maker, Molly Dineen reviews Nick Broomfield's documentary film Aileen - The Life and Death of a Serial Killer which follows the final days of Aileen Wuornos a convicted murderer living on Death Row.
Aileen: Life And Death Of A Serial Killer, certificate 15, opens tomorrow in The Other Cinema, The Ritzy in Brixton and key cities nationwide
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