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* The Century of the Self, directed by the award-winning programme-maker Adam Curtis, is about the rise of The Great Me, the quest for individual fulfilment that powers contemporary commerce and politics. The writer Fay Weldon, who has worked in advertising herself, watched the first programme of the series.
The Century of the Self begins on Sunday 17 March on 成人快手2 at 8.00pm.
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* The Disney Corporation today opened a second theme park in France. Disneyland Paris, now a decade old, is joined by the new Walt Disney Studios. John Baxter joins us on the line from the new Disney Studios in Paris.
The Walt Disney Studios are open from Saturday 16 March at Marne La Vallee outside Paris.
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* This evening on 成人快手1 the Dead Ringers team will appear in their first television show. Jon Culshaw and Jan Ravens talk about the big difference between the intimate radio audience and the wide-open spaces of television viewing.
Dead Ringers is on 成人快手1 tonight, 15 March, at 9.30pm and will return to Radio 4 on 19 April
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* This Sunday 17 March, at the London Book Fair, interim results will be announced of a survey of 5,000 executives to find the most influential book in the business world. Alex Brummer, Ernst Malsten, and David J Jeremy give their views.
Extracts from Lee Iacocca's autobiography read by Kerry Shale. The London Book Fair runs from the 17 to 19 March 2002 at the Olympia Exhibition Centre in London.
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*A reminder of the latest Front Row writing competition which we launched yesterday to mark World Book Day: your challenge is to write a story of 100 words which must include five words: binding, jacket, pulp, index, spine - all from the terminology of publishing.
To those five words we ask you to add another 95 to make a very short story on any subject.
Send your entries to Front Row, World Book Day Competition, 成人快手 Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London W1A 1AA or email us at frontrow@bbc.co.uk, or use the email link below. Please label your emails World Book Day Competition.
And the closing date is next Friday - 22 March.
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* Russell Crowe has a quirkily named band called 30 Odd Foot of Grunts and they have an an album out this week. Crowe, who co-writes all the songs, is the latest in a long line of film stars who fancy themselves as rock-gods. Music journalist Mark Sutherland considers their hubris.
Billy Bob Thornton's Private Radio is available on the Lost Highway label. And he'll be playing at the Union Chapel in London on 5 April. Russell Crowe's 30 Odd Foot of Grunts album, Clarity, can be found on the Gruntland label.
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On Monday's Programme
there is a half-hour interview with John Updike on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Later in the week, the Pet Shop Boys, a review of Kenneth Branagh as Richard III, and John Wilson will visit The Deep, the new acquarium in Hull designed by Terry Farrell.
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