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Nadine Gordimer 's Beethoven Was One Sixteenth Black and Other Stories, Ridley Scott's American Gangster

Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the cultural highlights of the week.

American Gangster
Directed by Ridley Scott, the film stars Denzel Washington as Frank Lucas, a real-life heroin kingpin from Harlem who smuggled the drug into the country in American service planes returning from the Vietnam War. Russell Crowe portrays Richie Roberts, a detective who aims to brings down Lucas’ drug empire.

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs
More than 130 artefacts discovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922 in the tomb of the celebrated pharaoh on show in London, some for the first time since the tomb's treasures were exhibited in the British Museum 30 years ago. Highlights of the exhibition include Tutankhamun's royal diadem - the gold crown discovered encircling the head of the king's mummified body, and one of the gold and precious stone-inlaid coffinettes that contained his mummified internal organs.

Statement of Regret
Kwame Kwei-Armah's third play for the London’s National Theatre tells the provocative story of a radical, black intellectual who fosters divisions within his community for personal gain – at a devastating cost. Starring Don Warrington, Oscar James and Ellen Thomas.

Beethoven Was One Sixteenth Black and Other Stories
Thirteen stories from South African Nobel Prize – winner Nadine Gordimer offer a demonstration of how people's origins, inheritances and histories, and the loss of them, are inescapable.

Cranford
Judi Dench, Philip Glenister, Francesca Annis and Michael Gambon star in a five-part period drama, based on three books by Elizabeth Gaskell. The story, set in the mid 19th century, follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford.

45 minutes

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  • Sat 17 Nov 2007 19:15

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