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'Wicker Man' star Woodward dies aged 79 ...
... but he was only the director's third choice for the role. Andy McSmith reports
Pandora: No Romanian holiday for Boris?
Boris Johnson became the first London Mayor to open the World Travel Market last week, riding by train to the venue to cut the ribbon.
Hit & Run: Would we care if he were alive?
Imagine that this year's breakout novelist is a 56-year-old Russian-American called Vladimir Nabokov, whose 12th work of fiction, Lolita, is making waves. On Radio 4's Front Row, his agent explains that yes, it has taken a while to be published in the UK or the US, but it's available from a Parisian porn imprint called the Olympia Press. He explains it's a monologue by a posh, unregenerate paedophile called Humbert Humbert, and his 12-year-old "nymphet" stepdaughter, with whom he absconds across America, for extremely sexual purposes, after her mother dies.
Charles Kennedy: You Ask The Questions
The MP and former leader of the Liberal Democrats answers your questions, such as 'So, were you betrayed by Vince Cable?' and 'Do you want your own chat show?'
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