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Actor Ashley Walters; Howard Hodgkin's Indian art; Katherine Kelly

John Wilson meets actor Ashley Walters, reviews Katherine Kelly in She Stoops to Conquer on stage, and talks to Howard Hodgkin about his collection of Indian art.

With John Wilson.

Ashley Walters made his name in the urban music collective So Solid Crew, before starting a successful acting career, including an award-winning performance in British film Bullet Boy. He's now starring in a new 成人论坛 drama, Inside Men. He reflects on how a prison sentence helped to get his acting career back on track.

Katherine Kelly from Coronation Street stars as Kate Hardcastle in a new production of She Stoops To Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith's classic comedy of manners. This new National Theatre staging also features Steve Pemberton and Sophie Thompson. Rachel Cooke reviews.

Howard Hodgkin owns one of the most important collections of historical Indian art in the world. As the complete collection goes on display for the first time at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, John Wilson talks to Hodgkin and to the curator Andrew Topsfield.

In Man On A Ledge, a new film out this week, the majority of the action takes place high up on the outside of a Manhattan hotel. Film historian Ian Christie and critic Adam Smith consider the enduring appeal to film-makers of the vertiginous setting of the high-rise building, from Harold Lloyd in the '20s to Tom Cruise clinging on to the windows of the world's tallest building in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.

Producer Philippa Ritchie.

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30 minutes

Chapters

  • Ashley Walters

    • Ashley Walters

      John Wilson talks to actor, Ashley Walters about his latest TV drama, Inside Men

      Duration: 10:18

  • She Stoops to Conquer

    • She Stoops to Conquer

      Rachel Cooke reviews She Stoops to Conquer at the National Theatre in London

      Duration: 04:19

  • Mona Lisa

    • Mona Lisa

      Art historian Martin Kemp discusses the new discovery of a copy of the Mona Lisa

      Duration: 04:39

  • Vertigo

    • Vertigo

      Film historian Ian Christie looks at the theme of vertigo in film making

      Duration: 08:11

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  • Wed 1 Feb 2012 19:15

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