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6 September 2015

Episode 322

54 minutes

Andrew Tuck and Steve Bloomfield reappraise the life of 20th-century intellectual giant Gore Vidal with his friend and biographer Jay Parini. We also take a look at exploitation-cinema posters with film director Nicolas Winding Refn and film writer Alan Jones. Plus: geographer turned comedian Mark Cooper-Jones gets a few laughs from the lie of the land.

6 September 2015

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Chapter 1

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Chapter 1

Introduction

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Andrew Tuck, Steve Bloomfield and Daniel Giacopelli discuss the past week’s events and look forward to the coming week’s biggest stories.

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Chapter 2

13 minutes


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Jay Parini

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US writer and academic Jay Parini visits Midori House to tell the story of his friend, Gore Vidal. The author and essayist is the subject of Parini’s new book, ‘Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal’.

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Nicolas Winding Refn and Alan Jones

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Danish film director Nicolas Winding Refn and cinema writer Alan Jones, who co-authored a new book of exploitation-cinema posters called ‘The Act of Seeing’, tell Monocle’s Tom Hall why the capacity to shock is still one of filmmaking’s most powerful strengths.

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Nicolas Winding Refn and Alan Jones

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Mark Cooper-Jones

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Comedian Mark Cooper-Jones explains why geography is not only an essential for getting by in a complicated world but also the inspiration for his routine.

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