Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard, Maigret with Rowan Atkinson, Sunken Cities
Arts news with John Wilson, including Glenn Close on her role as Norma Desmond in the musical Sunset Boulevard and a review of Rowan Atkinson in ITV's Maigret Sets a Trap.
Glenn Close discusses reprising her role as Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical Sunset Boulevard on stage at the English National Opera in London.
Rowan Atkinson is the latest actor to take on the part of Inspector Jules Maigret in ITV's new adaptation of Georges Simenon's novel Maigret Sets a Trap. Crime fiction specialist Jeff Park reviews.
As a series of cartoons drawn by the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten in the mid-1970s on the wall of a house in London's Denmark St are given listed status, Roger Bowdler, director of listings at Historic England, and Henry Scott-Irvine from the Save Denmark St campaign, assess the importance of the preservation.
Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds, the British Museum's first major show on underwater archaeology, will open in May. As the first of more than 200 discoveries found beneath the sea by the French diver and archaeologist Franck Goddio are installed, John Wilson gets an early preview. Goddio and curator Aurélia Masson-Berghoff introduce him to 'Hapi', a 5.4-metre, 6-tonne red granite statue of the god of fertility.
Presenter John Wilson
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
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Glenn Close
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The BP exhibition Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds
Duration: 05:42
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Glenn Close
Duration: 09:57
Sex Pistols Cartoons in Denmark Street
Duration: 05:54
Maigret Sets a Trap
Duration: 04:59
BP's Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds
Duration: 06:34
Glenn Close
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Sunset Boulevard starring Glenn Close opens at the on 1 April and runs until 7 May.Maigret Sets a Trap
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Maigret Sets a Trap is broadcast on Monday 28 March on ITV at 9pm.Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds
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The BP exhibition Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds opens at the on 19 May and runs until 27 November 2016.
Image: The god Hapy being lifted. Courtesy of The British Museum
Sex Pistol cartoons preserved
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John Wilson discusses the relevance of preserving Sex Pistol cartoons in Denmark Street.
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Role Contributor Presenter John Wilson Interviewed Guest Glenn Close Interviewed Guest Jeff Park Interviewed Guest Roger Bowdler Interviewed Guest Henry Scott-Irvine Interviewed Guest Franck Goddio Interviewed Guest Aurelia Masson-Berghoff Producer Jerome Weatherald Broadcast
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