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*Overpaid, oversexed and over here? American strippers take to the west end stage to give us The Full Monty. Mark Ravenhill saw everything.
The Full Monty is at The Prince of Wales Theatre in London.
Meanwhile on Sunday night, Channel 4 will be showing a documentary which includes footage of the making of the musical called The Bottom Line: Revealing the Full Monty which is at 9 p.m. Followed by a screening of the film The Full Monty at 9.30.
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* The great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich is 75 later this month. A product of the soviet system he had an uneasy relationship with his homeland. Front Row brought together the film-maker Tony Palmer and the director of the London Symphony Orchestra Clive Gillinson and asked them how would they now characterise Rostropovich's relationship with Russia?
The London Symphony Orchestra begin their 75th birthday celebration concerts at the Barbican centre tomorrow night. The recordings of Rostrapovich playing the Dvorak concerto and the Shostakovich symphony number eight were taken from new CD releases Rostrapovich Mastercellist on the Deutsche Gramaphon label and the Slava 75 on EMI classics.
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* Wallpaper is back in fashion according to this spring's interiors magazines. Gill Saunders, of the Victoria and Albert Museum argues that despite its relatively ephemeral nature, it is equally important amongst the decorative arts. Front Row visited Gill Saunders among the wallpaper archives of the V&A:
Gill Saunders book called Wallpaper in Interior Decoration is published by the Victoria and Albert Museum. You can also see large collections of wallpaper at the Whitworth Museum in Manchester and at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture at Middlesex University.
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* David Harsent's new volume of poetry is a study of closed and enigmatic domesticity. marriage is largely given over to a series of poems inspired by the relationship between the painter Pierre Bonnard and his muse (and later wife) Marthe. David came into the studio to talk about the work.
David Harsent's poetry book Marriage is published by Faber.
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On Tomorrow's Programme
Mark Lawson will be giving details of the Front Row competition for world book day so have a pencil handy - and he'll consider the career of the Italian sculptor Bernini and interview the American playwright Kenneth Lonnergan who has two plays opening in London.
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