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16/09/2009

Including advice on facing the judges from former Strictly winner Mark Ramprakash; novelists Julian Barnes, William Boyd and Jane Gardam discuss points of view in fiction.

Mark Ramprakash, cricketer and former winner of Strictly Come Dancing, talks about being judged on the cricket pitch and the dancefloor, and discusses the advice he has given to Phil Tufnell about competing in the latest series.

In her latest book, Jane Gardam returns to the character of Old Filth, writing his story from his wife Betty's point of view. Prof Hermione Lee and novelists Julian Barnes, Jane Gardam and William Boyd discuss points of view in fiction, from the omniscient narrator of Thackeray to the interior monologue of Virginia Woolf.

Roger Luckhurst reviews the film Gamer, where players risk death in an inter-active video game.

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