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Johnny Depp and Paul Bettany, Imogen Cooper, Kate Saunders, Fortitude

Johnny Depp and Paul Bettany on new film Mortdecai; pianist Imogen Cooper; Kate Saunders discusses her Costa Children's Book award-winner; Fortitude starring Sofie GrΓ¥bΓΈl reviewed.

Johnny Depp and Paul Bettany discuss their new film Mortdecai, a slapstick art heist caper set amongst the British aristocracy.

Sofie GrΓ¥bΓΈl, star of The Killing, returns to the small screen in Fortitude. GrΓ¥bΓΈl's first British drama series focuses on a small community in the Arctic Circle where a murder has been committed. Novelist Tom Harper reviews.

Pianist Imogen Cooper discusses her new album on which she performs works by the husband-and-wife team of Robert and Clara Shumann, based on the letters they exchanged during their courtship.

Costa Children's Book Award winner Kate Saunders discusses Five Children on the Western Front, her update of E Nesbit's Five Children and It stories, which transports the children to 1914 and imagines their fortunes at war.

Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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Chapters

  • Johnny Depp & Paul Bettany

    Duration: 07:39

  • Fortitude

    Duration: 04:36

  • Imogen Cooper

    Duration: 06:43

  • Adam Feinstein on Pablo Neruda

    Duration: 03:12

  • Kate Saunders

    Duration: 05:17

Johnny Depp and Paul Bettany

Johnny Depp and Paul Bettany

opens nationwide on 23 January, certificate 12A


Fortitude

Fortitude

begins on Sky Atlantic 29 January at 9pm


Imogen Cooper

Imogen Cooper
Works by Clara and Robert Schumann, performed byΒ , is out now
Photo credit:Β Benjamin Ealovega

Kate Saunders

Kate Saunders

by Kate Saunders is out now


Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda
after exhuming his body last year. Neruda's British translator and biographer Adam Feinstein discusses this new development.

Credits

Presenter Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest Johnny Depp
Interviewed Guest Paul Bettany
Interviewed Guest Tom Harper
Interviewed Guest Imogen Cooper
Interviewed Guest Kate Saunders
Producer Jerome Weatherald

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  • Thu 22 Jan 2015 19:15
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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