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Jeffrey Eugenides; Hamlet; Tabloid

With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Michael Sheen as Hamlet; a review of the documentary Tabloid; and an interview with Jeffrey Eugenides.

With Mark Lawson.

Michael Sheen stars in the Young Vic's new production of Hamlet. Director Ian Rickson sets the play in the Elsinore Mental Asylum, an institution the audience must also check in to. Hermione Lee reviews.

Kelvin Mackenzie, former editor of The Sun, gives the critical verdict on Tabloid: a new documentary charting the way British newspapers covered the extraordinary tale of Joyce McKinney, a US beauty queen accused of imprisoning a young Mormon missionary in 1977.

Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex, talks about his long- awaited third novel: The Marriage Plot. He discusses how this novel is born of a previous abandoned book, and how a friendly competition with fellow American author Jonathan Franzen has spurred him on throughout his career.

The British Library's collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts are on display together for the first time. The manuscripts were collected over 800 years by Kings and Queens of England. Writer A N Wilson reviews the exhibition.

Producer Ellie Bury.

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30 minutes

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Thu 10 Nov 2011 19:15

Chapters

  • Hamlet

    Mark Lawson reviews a new production of Hamlet starring Michael Sheen.

    Duration: 06:05

  • Tabloid

    Mark and Kelvin Mackenzie review Tabloid.

    Duration: 04:26

  • Jeffrey Eugenides

    Interview with Jeffrey Eugenides about his new book: The Marriage Plot.

    Duration: 12:36

  • The British Library

    A N Wilson reviews the new exhibition at The British Library of illuminated manuscripts.

    Duration: 04:16

Broadcast

  • Thu 10 Nov 2011 19:15

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