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Prunella Scales, Jenny Saville, Coogan and Iannucci on TV

Prunella Scales on the eve of her 80th birthday, artist Jenny Saville on painting female nudes, and Boyd Hilton on new TV shows from Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci.

With Mark Lawson.

On the eve of her 80th birthday, Prunella Scales discusses acting roles from Basil Fawlty's wife Sybil in the British comedy Fawlty Towers, to Queen Elizabeth II in the British film A Question of Attribution, and reveals secrets of family life with fellow thespians husband Timothy West and elder son Samuel West.

Steve Coogan returns to TV in a one hour special, Alan Partridge: Welcome to The Places of my Life, and his occasional writing partner Armando Iannucci launches Veep, a new TV political sitcom about a woman senator - played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus from Seinfeld - who unexpectedly becomes vice-president (Veep) of the United States. Both are reviewed by Boyd Hilton.

Artist Jenny Saville became known in the mid-1990s for monumental and distorted paintings of nude women - after Charles Saatchi bought up her entire post-graduate show. Saville discusses about her first ever solo exhibition in a UK public gallery, which opens at Modern Art Oxford this week and includes works inspired by Leonardo da Vinci.

Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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30 minutes

Chapters

  • Prunella Scales

    • Prunella Scales

      An interview with Prunella Scales.

      Duration: 11:41

  • Veep and Alan Partridge

    • Veep and Alan Partridge

      A review of Steve Coogan in a one hour TV special, Alan Partridge: Welcome to The Places of my Life, and Armando Iannucci's Veep, a new TV political sitcom.

      Duration: 06:42

  • Jenny Saville

    • Jenny Saville

      An interview with artist Jenny Saville.

      Duration: 09:25

Broadcast

  • Thu 21 Jun 2012 19:15

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