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* There's strong evidence today that drama commissioning editors may be getting their ideas at the hairdressers. Not only was Tuesday's afternoon play on Radio 4, Bottle Blonde and Beautiful, set in a northern salon, but so is a new Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ1 drama series. Cutting It begins with 10th birthday celebrations at a successful Manchester hairdresser's. But with the arrival of a sexy southerner, celebration turns to competition and soon it's a case of hairdryers at dawn.
To decide whether Cutting It cuts it we were joined by Emily Bell, editor, Guardian Online.
Cutting It starts at 9.00pm tonight on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ1.
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* The artist Peter Blake has taken a pop at the record company EMI for commissioning a painting which it then declined to use on the hit Robbie Williams album Swing When You're Winning. But in the past, many artists, including Blake himself, Magritte, Hockney and Warhol have either made new pictures or had their old pictures used for album sleeves. In fact you could almost imagine an art exhibition consisting entirely of images created for albums. Front Row did imagine it.
Under Cover - Pop Art From Peter Blake to Robbie Williams has just closed at the Front Row Gallery.
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* Until ten years ago Wimbledon was synonymous with tennis. But then the novelist Nigel Williams published The Wimbledon Poisoner and SW19 was revealed as a den of wife-murder, extra-terrestrials and Islamic fundamentalism.
Williams this week publishes a new novel which moves in place from Wimbledon to Croydon, and in time from the present to the past. Hatchett And Lycett is a pastiche of 1930s English fiction, taking in the classic detective novel, the boarding-school yarn and also stories of World War II, as teacher Norma Lewis copes with the romantic and criminal aftermath in England of a school trip to France. Nigel Williams talks to us about it.
Hatchett And Lycett, by Nigel Williams, is published by Penguin/Viking.
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* As the international art market has expanded, newspaper headline writers have frequently been grateful for the fact that one of the French impressionists had a surname which so closely resembles the English word money. But how safe is art as an investment? Would you put your Monet where your pension is?
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* Journalists will occasionally measure the decline in the popularity of print by pointing out nostalgically that certain places in Britain are still a two-paper town, indicating that most locations now support a single title. New York, though, today became a three tabloid town. The Daily News and Rupert Murdoch's Daily Post - long time rivals - were today joined by a third entrant to the market, The New York Sun. Are two company and three a crowd?
The New York Sun is on sale from Tuesday 17 April.
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On Wednesday's programme
Adrian Noble's production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the artist Alison Jackson on getting the picture of Charles and Camilla that the world really wanted to see.
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