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A review of a spectacular production of Puccini's opera directed by film director Zhang Yimou in Beijing's Forbidden City. Also on the programme: a tribute to the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa; the screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce talks about the film Hilary and Jackie from the Venice Film Festival; the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor talks about winning the Carlsberg architectural prize; and the English National Opera launches its new season with Verdi's Otello.
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