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With Mark Lawson, including a review of the film One Day, based on the best-selling novel by David Nicholls, which stars American actress Anne Hathaway as a young woman from Yorkshire who falls for fellow student Jim Sturgess.

Mark Lawson visits Northumberlandia, a vast sculpted landform in the shape of a reclining female figure which is being created from 1.5 million tonnes of soil on a mining site near Cramlington, south east Northumberland. Designed by artist Charles Jencks, when complete the earth works will be 34 metres high and 400 metres in length, forming the centrepiece to a new public park.

Mark talks to the American writer Nicholson Baker, whose previous books include Vox, The Fermata and The Mezzanine. His latest is a sexually explicit novel called House Of Holes.

Producer Stephen Hughes.