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Tom Sutcliffe and guests novelist Deborah Moggach, actor Kerry Shale and academic and critic John Mullan review the week's cultural highlights.
Award winning documentary Armadillo by Danish film maker Janus Metz follows a group of Danish soldiers from their arrival in 2009 at a joint Danish and British base in Helmand called Armadillo. The film prompted an official army enquiry into alleged misbehaviour by some of the soldiers following a Taleban ambush and it was announced in November 2010 the base was to be dismantled.
Television writer and humorist Steve Hely's How I Became A Famous Novelist chronicles its protagonist's successful attempt to write a best seller and what he learns about life along the way. Described as an "evisceration" of celebrity culture and literary fame.
Linda Basset stars in acclaimed playwright Simon Stephens's new play "Wastwater" at the Royal Court directed by Katie Mitchell and set in an unlikely theatrical location, the periphery of Heathrow as it explores the lives of those who live there.
And Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon opens at the Ashmoleon Museum in Oxford. Until 30 years ago Macedon's capital city Aegae remained relatively unknown. Excavations uncovered then revealed treasures from the tombs of its most famous heroes, King Philip II and his son Alexander the Great.
And a new drama on Channel 5, The Walking Dead, adapted from Robert Kirkman's graphic novels by Frank Darabont, who describes it as a human story about zombies.
Producer: Torquil Macleod.
By BBC Radio 44.5
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Tom Sutcliffe and guests novelist Deborah Moggach, actor Kerry Shale and academic and critic John Mullan review the week's cultural highlights.
Award winning documentary Armadillo by Danish film maker Janus Metz follows a group of Danish soldiers from their arrival in 2009 at a joint Danish and British base in Helmand called Armadillo. The film prompted an official army enquiry into alleged misbehaviour by some of the soldiers following a Taleban ambush and it was announced in November 2010 the base was to be dismantled.
Television writer and humorist Steve Hely's How I Became A Famous Novelist chronicles its protagonist's successful attempt to write a best seller and what he learns about life along the way. Described as an "evisceration" of celebrity culture and literary fame.
Linda Basset stars in acclaimed playwright Simon Stephens's new play "Wastwater" at the Royal Court directed by Katie Mitchell and set in an unlikely theatrical location, the periphery of Heathrow as it explores the lives of those who live there.
And Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon opens at the Ashmoleon Museum in Oxford. Until 30 years ago Macedon's capital city Aegae remained relatively unknown. Excavations uncovered then revealed treasures from the tombs of its most famous heroes, King Philip II and his son Alexander the Great.
And a new drama on Channel 5, The Walking Dead, adapted from Robert Kirkman's graphic novels by Frank Darabont, who describes it as a human story about zombies.
Producer: Torquil Macleod.

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