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Claudia talks to the nation's favourite tenor Alfie Boe

Claudia is joined by the tenor Alfie Boe, and by Michael Peppiatt, leading authority on the Swiss scupltor Alberto Giacometti. Plus she discusses The Turner Prize.

Claudia is joined by Dan and Jeff from C主播大秀 who will perform a potted version of Sleeping Beauty live - they are the creators of Potted Panto which features seven of the nation's favourite pantomimes, "potted" into 70 minutes. Dan and Jeff write and perform the Potted shows and have gone from taking Potted Potter at a tiny Edinburgh venue to bringing the most famous British theatre genre back into the West End for Christmas.

The nation's favourite tenor Alfie Boe talks about his new album.

Author Michael Peppiatt gives us an insight into the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Michael is about to publish a new book to accompany an exhibition he has just curated in New York. Titled 'In Giacometti's studio' the works on view include 100 sculptures, paintings and drawings, plus photographs and documents, with many previously unseen items as they come from an unprecedented loan from Giacometti's heirs and other private collections.

Actor Michael Fenton Stevens and musical director Philip Pope discuss Wilton's Vintage Christmas - a music hall style celebration of Victorian Christmas based around the idea of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, with Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, with poetry, music-hall songs, variety-style entertainment and Christmas carols.

Art critic Estelle Lovatt talks about the Turner Prize - the history of the competition, the artists competing, past winners, public reaction, plus all the controversy.

Theatre critic Michael Billington reviews the latest plays and shows from around the UK.

And Penny Smith follows the ancient Egyptians' journey from death to the afterlife in a once-in-a lifetime exhibition at the British Museum focusing on the Book Of The Dead.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews

    Baby It's Cold Outside

    • (CD Single).
    • Gut Records.
  • The Andrews Sisters

    Winter Wonderland

    • The Polar Express.
    • Warner Sunset/Reprise.
    • 10.
  • The Police

    Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

    • Ones On 1 (Radio 1 21st Birthday Albu.
    • 主播大秀.
  • From a CD single on Decca records

    • Israel Kamakawiwo驶ole

      Somewhere Over The Rainbow

  • Josh Groban

    Hidden Away

    • Illuminations.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.
  • Pet Shop Boys

    West End Girls

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.
  • Lissie

    Everywhere I Go

    • Catching A Tiger.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.
  • From the CD 'Bring Him 主播大秀' on Decca

    • Alfie Boe

      Bring Him 主播大秀

  • Billy Joel

    Piano Man

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Columbia.
  • From 'Davis Belts The Best Of Broadway' on Reprise

    • Sammy Davis Jr.

      There Is Nothing Like A Dame

  • Turin Brakes

    Pain Killer

    • (CD Single).
    • Source Records.
  • From a CD single on 100% records

    • Matisyahu

      One Day

Broadcast

  • Fri 10 Dec 2010 22:00