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Mitsuko Uchida
Sun 29 Sep 2013
The pianist Mitsuko Uchida chooses The Resurrection by Piero della Francesca.
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Armando Iannucci
Fri 16 Aug 2013
As the final Cultural Exchange Armando Iannucci chooses the Woody Allen film Stardust...
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Riz Ahmed
Wed 14 Aug 2013
Riz Ahmed chooses the video game Street Fighter II, which was released in arcades in 1991.
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C J Sansom
Tue 13 Aug 2013
C J Sansom - author of the historical crime series Shardlake – picks the first of in...
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Michael Grandage
Mon 12 Aug 2013
Michael Grandage chooses a poem by WS Graham called Dear Bryan Wynter.
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Josie Rourke
Thu 8 Aug 2013
Josie Rourke chooses the 1987 film Broadcast News. Plus BBC archive interviews with L...
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Gemma Chan
Tue 6 Aug 2013
Gemma Chan chooses the film The Princess Bride. Plus archive BBC interviews with Harry...
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Cerys Matthews
Fri 2 Aug 2013
Cerys Matthews chooses Fanfare Ciocărlia and their album Queens and Kings.
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Jeffrey Archer
Thu 1 Aug 2013
Jeffrey Archer chooses the painting Ecce Homo by the 19th Century Italian artist...
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Philip Pullman
Wed 31 Jul 2013
Philip Pullman chooses a song by Georges Brassens, called Supplique pour être à la...
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Nicola Benedetti
Tue 30 Jul 2013
Nicola Benedetti chooses Korngold’s Violin Concerto, played by Jascha Heifetz.
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Richard Rogers
Mon 29 Jul 2013
Richard Rogers chooses the Piazza del Campo, a medieval square in Siena.
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CE Kamila Shamsie
Fri 26 Jul 2013
Kamila Shamsie chooses the film All About Eve (1950), starring Bette Davis.
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Terry Jones
Fri 26 Jul 2013
Terry Jones chooses Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas. Plus BBC archive of Dylan Thomas...
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Ruth Rendell
Wed 24 Jul 2013
Ruth Rendell chooses the oratorio Solomon by Handel. Plus archive interviews about...
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Paul Franklin
Fri 19 Jul 2013
The Oscar-winning Visual Effects Designer, Paul Franklin chooses The Thief of Bagdad.
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Conrad Shawcross
Tue 16 Jul 2013
Artist Conrad Shawcross chooses one of the 250 pictures in the waterlilies series by...
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David Sedaris
Mon 15 Jul 2013
American writer and humorist David Sedaris chooses the TV reality series RuPaul's Drag...
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Pat Barker
Wed 10 Jul 2013
Author Pat Barker chooses Benjamin Britten's song cycle Who Are These Children?
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Penelope Curtis
Mon 8 Jul 2013
Penelope Curtis, Director at Tate Britain, chooses the buildings designed by Powell...
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Brian Sewell
Thu 4 Jul 2013
Brian Sewell chooses the painting Christ contemplated by the Christian Soul by Velazquez.
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Clarke Peters
Wed 3 Jul 2013
Actor and musician Clarke Peters – best-known for his TV roles in the Wire
