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Dawn French, Cleo Laine, Any Human Heart reviewed

Mark Lawson talks to Dawn French about marriage and writing and to jazz singer Cleo Laine and watches Jim Broadbent in a TV version of William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart.

Dawn French discusses her new novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, which she finished writing during her separation from Lenny Henry.

Cleo Laine talks about performing following the death of her husband John Dankworth. She appears with her son and daughter at the London Jazz Festival on November 16th.

William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart has been dramatised for television starring Jim Broadbent and Matthew McFadyen as a man whose life spans most of the twentieth century and includes encounters with the Duchess of Windsor, Ernest Hemingway and Ian Fleming.
Peter Kemp reviews.

Producer Robyn Read.

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