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'Lovely Bones'

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In this edition, Eve Jackson talks about movie with the adaptation of Alice Sebold Best Seller: 'The Lovely Bones', directed by Peter Jackson. Then, we meet French Soprano Nathalie Dessay who is playing on stage at the Opera in Bellini's Sonnambula.

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