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Wuthering Heights; screenwriter Peter Morgan

With Mark Lawson, including a review of Andrea Arnold's latest film Wuthering Heights, and interviews with author Peter James and screenwriter Peter Morgan.

With Mark Lawson.

Andrea Arnold's latest film is a re-telling of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. The director of Red Road and Fish Tank cast mainly non-professional actors in the film, which aims to escape the conventions of a costume drama. Sarah Crompton reviews.

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Peter Morgan returns to TV with a second series of the legal drama The Jury, nine years after the original series was aired. Morgan, whose credits include The Queen and Frost/Nixon, discusses why he favours writing for TV over cinema, the pressures of writing about living people and a letter he received from Tony Blair.

The Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner, created by Charles Sargeant Jagger, was unveiled in 1925 and features a larger-than-life howitzer carved from Portland stone, standing on a large plinth surrounded by four bronze figures of artillery men. Richard Cork visits the newly-restored memorial ahead of Remembrance Sunday, and re-assesses the power of Jagger's work.

Best-selling crime novelist Peter James talks about his latest book, Perfect People, a thriller set in the pioneering world of gene manipulation. As he explains, though this may sound like science-fiction, genetic planning is already possible to some extent - and so his book also explores the ethics of creating designer babies.

Producer Katie Langton.

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30 minutes

Chapters

  • Wuthering Heights

    Mark and Sarah Crompton review the latest film version of Wuthering Heights.

    Duration: 05:02

  • Peter Morgan

    Interview with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Peter Morgan

    Duration: 08:49

  • The Royal Artillery Memorial

    Mark and Richard Cork visit the newly-restored Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner

    Duration: 06:30

  • Peter James

    Interview with best-selling crime novelist Peter James

    Duration: 07:38

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  • Mon 7 Nov 2011 19:15

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