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Writer Rona Munro; Meek's Cutoff reviewed

With Kirsty Lang. Rona Munro discusses her two new plays Liitle Eagles and Pandas and her film Oranges and Sunshine; the literary scene in Russia; and new western Meek's Cutoff.

With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with playwright and screenwriter Rona Munro, who this month launches two new plays - one about the early Soviet space programme, and one about a Chinese couple in Edinburgh - and her film, Oranges and Sunshine about the organised deportation of children in care from Britain to Australia.

Horses and wagons feature in a new western, Meek's Cutoff, about the tribulations of three pioneer families in 1845, making their way across the harsh Oregon desert. Writer John Harvey reviews.

As this year's London Book Fair focuses on the Russian market, leading Russian writers Boris Akunin, Mikhail Shishkin and German Sadulaev, and poet Maria Stepanova explore the current literary scene in the country.

And film critic Adam Smith casts a critical eye over today's film-trailers - and notices various stylistic trends.

Producer Rebecca Nicholson.

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  • Mon 11 Apr 2011 19:15

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