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* William Boyd's new novel, Any Human Heart, is an epic of the 20th Century. The story of author Logan Mountstuart it charts his life from a catholic adolescence in the 20s to octogenarian decrepitude captured in his own journals.
William Boyd's Any Human Heart is published in hardback next week
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* The West of England Philharmonic is the first new Symphony Orchestra to be formed in Britain for over 30 years. Not only that but it is also the first to be wholly dependant upon commercial sponsorship. Is this a new model for Britain's struggling Orchestras?
The orchestra's first concert with John Lill playing Rachmaninov and actor Timothy West narrating is on Wednesday at the Colston Hall in Bristol
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* Steven Spielberg's first feature film is due to be re-released on video after a long absence from the shelves. Duel is the story of a lone driver relentlessly pursued by a faceless trucker. With the benefit of hindsight we examine what a debut can tell us about a director's subsequent career.
Duel was reissued by Universal on video on Monday 08/04/02
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* No-frills airlines have been remarkably successful in persuading more and more people to take to the skies. With the founder of EasyJet, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, set to move into movie going we ask if no-frills cinemas can succeed in revitalising film going?
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* Even Hitler lamented that Germans had nothing to compare with Shakespeare. His comments are among those collected by John Gross in a new anthology which aims to chart Shakespeare's influence on other authors in many languages. His one solid conclusion is that the only language writers should avoid is Shakespearean.
After Shakespeare, by John Gross, is published by Oxford University Press.
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On tomorrow's Programme
Kevin Spacey plays a man who thinks he's an alien in K Pax and Howard Jacobsen weighs up the relative merits of fidelity and adultery.
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