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MONDAY NIGHT
* In The 1900 House and The 1940s House, volunteers recreated the domestic conditions in which their ancestors lived: forgoing electricity and central heating or surviving on war-time rations.
These living history reconstructions have always contained a strong element of the game-show, with tension over whether the participants will be able to keep to the rules during the project.
The same producers have now made The Edwardian Country House. The sense of contest is greater in the latest series because there are two teams: upstairs and downstairs. Harmless fun or just another example of Britain's obsession with class?
The Edwardian Country House starts on Channel 4 on Monday 22 April.
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* When Steven Spielberg completed Stanley Kubrick's AI he probably didn't think he was starting a trend. But since then Martin Scorsese has talked of reviving David Lean's Nostromo while Tom Tykwer, director of Run Lola Run, has just filmed Krzysztof Kieslowski's last project Heaven.
Is walking in dead men's shoes an example of healthy creativity or just cinematic grave-robbing? Christopher Hampton and Bob McCabe join the discussion.
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* Author Rohinton Mistry is the only writer with more than one novel to his name who has had his entire output shortlisted for the Booker Prize. With a third novel, Family Matters, Front Row asks if he will continue his record as one of the most successful writers around in terms of awards per book.
Family Matters is published by Faber & Faber.
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* While there have been many shows of stolen artworks, a new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum is probably the first where everything has, literally, come off the back of a lorry. Milan In A Van consists of a truckload of exhibits from the just-opened Milan Furniture Fair rushed back to London. Never one to shirk from snap judgements, Front Row went to have a look at the V&A's very own Italian Job.
Milan in a Van is in the new Contemporary Space at the Victoria and Albert Museum from Monday 21 April.
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* 70s group Supertramp are back with a new album.
Supertramp's new album is called Slow Motion.
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On Front Row tomorrow,
a profile of the artist Sam Taylor Wood and a review of the latest Hugh Grant film - About A Boy.
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