Cultural Life: Noel Clarke, Actor & Director

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Too few kids are getting cultural experiences

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Films

Shane Meadows' 'This Is England' captures England during the 1980's for those working-class British men who became disillusioned. 'Battle in Heaven' is a Mexican film about this old couple who kidnap a baby. 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' is about life after a stroke.

TV

'Lost In Austen' because my friend Jemima Rooper is starring in it. I get fed up with period stuff, but this is quirky and modern as she gets transported back to the past. I'm a bit busy to watch TV. I have just filmed 'Heartless', and am on set with the horror comedy 'Doghouse'.

Books

'Girl With a One-Track Mind: Confessions of the Seductress Next Door' by Abby Lee is an anonymous sex blog. Zoe Margolis was exposed as the author. Naughty or liberated? I just re-read 'Kissing in Manhattan' by David Schickler and 'Outcast' by Sadie Jones, about a young boy in the 1930s.

Music

Mariah Carey's new album 'E=MC2' is the best she has done in 10 years. Indie pop band The Ting Tings are catchy. I like the rapper The Game and his new album, 'LAX'. It is gangster rap, but it is not mindless. He has something to say.

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