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The civilised, clever and thoroughly admirable Diana Athill is interviewed by Lynn Barber on tonight’s busy edition. Athill spent most of a brilliant career editing work by Jean Rhys, Simone de Beauvoir, VS Naipaul and Margaret Atwood, before turning to writing herself with her superb memoir, Stet, and its follow-up, Somewhere towards the End, about growing old.
In addition, Mark Kermode interviews the troublesome Danish director Lars von Trier, who got into a big pickle with some very ill-chosen comments about Hitler. He’s here to talk about his new film, the fun-filled Melancholia, starring Kirsten Dunst.
And Tim Samuels talks to inmates of Wandsworth jail in London about their passion for sewing.
About this programme
Mark Kermode is joined by director Lars Von Trier, who discusses his film Melancholia, and Andrew Graham-Dixon visits a recently opened art gallery in Colchester. Alastair Sooke meets American artist Frank Stella, and the inmates of Wandsworth Prison reflect on their passion for embroidery. Michael Smith explores an exhibition devoted to postmodernism at the V&A, Lynn Barber interviews literary editor Diana Athill, and Nigel Kennedy introduces his new work Four Elements.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Presenter
- Andrew Graham-Dixon
- Presenter
- Lynn Barber
- Presenter
- Mark Kermode
- Presenter
- Alastair Sooke
- Presenter
- Simon Thurley
- Guest
- Diana Athill
- Guest
- Lars von Trier
- Guest
- Frank Stella
- Guest
- Nigel Kennedy
- Guest
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
Crew
- Series Editor
- Janet Lee
- Series Producer
- Emma Cahusac
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