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04/02/2009

Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Tom Perrotta, who discusses his novel The Abstinence Teacher.

Presented by Mark Lawson.

Comedian and author Natalie Haynes gives her verdict on He's Just Not That Into You, a film comedy inspired by one line of dialogue from an episode of the television show Sex And The City.

Writer Tom Perrotta discusses his latest book, The Abstinence Teacher, which follows a sex education teacher's personal battle of morals with evangelical Christians.

Whatsoever A Man Soweth and Don't Be Like Brenda are just two of the 16 titles of Sex Education films on the BFI's latest DVD anthology. Dr Melissa Sawyer from Radio 1's Surgery talks about the films' relevance today.

To mark the bicentenary of Joseph Haydn's death, Sir Roger Norrington opens a series of concerts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Sir Roger discusses these performances and the plans for his own forthcoming 75th birthday concert in March.

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