The Culture Show - 2009/2010 - Episode 7

Lauren Laverne presents from the courtyard of Somerset House in London, the home for the premiere of Pedro Almodovar's new film Broken Embraces. Almodovar and star of the film Penelope Cruz join Lauren to talk about the film and their work together. Mark Kermode meets director Sam Mendes to talk about his new work The Bridge Project, a joint production of The Winter's Tale and The Cherry Orchard by the Old Vic and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Lauren Laverne talks to Alex Turner's band the Arctic Monkeys about their new album Humbug. Andrew Graham-Dixon goes to Westminster Abbey to tell the extraordinary story of the 13th-century Cosmati Pavement, a rarely seen mosaic marvel. Tom Dyckhoff reviews the new Serpentine Pavilion by cutting-edge Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, described as 'floating aluminium, like smoke drifting through trees'.