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* It took the murder of his daughter to turn Dominick Dunne from a failed film producer into one of America's most successful crime writers.
As a collection of his court reports, Justice, is published this week Front Row asked him how hard it was trying to be objective.
Justice, by Dominick Dunne, is published by Time Warner.
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* Size matters. When the BBFC asked for a 12-second cut in the French film The Pornographer, a film technician accidentally cut 17 seconds. The distributors have responded by placing a card before the film condemning the censor's "butchery".
Is this a blow for sense or censorship? Writer and journalist Dea Birkett reviews the film.
The Pornographer is released nationwide on Friday 19 April, Certificate 18.
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* British actor Henry Goodman thought he'd struck lucky with a call to Broadway to appear in New York's most successful musical, The Producers. But it was reported today that Goodman has left the show after disappointment with his performance.
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* The Orwell Prize is an annual prize aimed at encouraging stylish writing about politics. This year's Orwell Prize was given to Miranda Carter for her biography of the traitor Anthony Blunt: His Lives. She talks to Front Row about the award.
The winner of this year's Orwell Prize is Miranda Carter for her Anthony Blunt - His Lives, published by Macmillan.
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* What is Equal Temperament? This is the system of piano tuning which has been the subject of artistic and philosophical debate lasting several hundred years. Front Row talks to musicologist Stuart Isacoff, who has just published a history of the subject.
Temperament by Stuart Isacoff, is published by Faber & Faber.
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On Tuesday's programme
An interview with the novelist Nigel Williams.
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