Saturday Review
Summary: Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week’s cultural highlights on BBC Radio 4.
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Podcasts:
Southcliffe on Channel 4; Roddy Doyle's new Commitments-revisiting novel The Guts; Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives with Kristin Scott Thomas and Ryan Gosling; Titanic at Southwark Playhouse and Mass Observation: This is Your Photo. Denise Mina, Deborah Bull and Kerry Shale join Sarfraz Manzoor
The Queen's Coronation 1953 at Buckingham Palace; Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach's film starring Greta Gerwig; Alissa Nutting's novel Tampa; musical Barnum at Chichester and The Mill on Channel 4. Sarfraz Manzoor is joined by Dame Liz Forgan, Antonia Quirke and Deborah Moggach.
Chiwetel Ejiofor in A Season in the Congo at the Young Vic; Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reuinited for The World's End; Richard Rogers: Inside Out; Perfect, the new novel by Rachel Joyce and Burton and Taylor with Helena Bonham Carter and Dominic West. Sarfraz Manzoor is joined by Ekow Eshun, Joe Dunthorne and Maev Kennedy
Jane Campion's Top of the Lake starring Elisabeth Moss; silent film Blancanieves; Untangling the Web by Aleks Krotoski; the play Circle Mirror Transformation starring Imelda Staunton and Toby Jones; and Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s is a new exhibition at the V&A. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by the novelists Linda Grant and Alex Preston and anthropologist Kit Davis
The Manchester International Festival: Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston in Macbeth, Massive Attack v Adam Curtis and art exhibition do it 2013. Also Ben Wheatley's film A Field in England and Harry Eyres' memoir Horace and Me. Tom Holland, Emma Jane Unsworth and Paul Farley join Tom Sutcliffe
Cerys Matthews, Aminatta Forna and David Benedict join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss Sam Mendes' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; powerful documentary The Act of Killing; Jonathan Dee's A Thousand Pardons; Sarah Polley's film Stories We Tell and a major retrospective of LS Lowry at Tate Britain.
Conor McPherson's new play The Night Alive at the Donmar Warehouse; Before Midnight with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy; Memory Palace, an exhibition at the V&A of artists' work inspired by a novella by Hari Kunzru; Phil Spector, a television film by David Mamet with Al Pacino and Helen Mirren; and Evie Wyld's novel All the Birds, Singing. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Bidisha, Patrick Gale and Stephanie Merritt.
The Amen Corner at the National Theatre; Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing; Neil Gaiman's novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane; Alternative Guide to the Universe at the Hayward and The White Queen on BBC1. Gillian Slovo, Dreda Say Mitchell and Kamila Shamsie join Tom Sutcliffe.
Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in Behind the Candelabra; a major Chagall exhibition at Tate Liverpool; Strange Interlude at the National with Anne Marie Duff; Hammond Innes; and The Returned on Channel 4. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Kathryn Hughes, Sarfraz Manzoor and David Aaronovitch.
In David Mamet's "Race," Mamet sets out to write a play which explores racial tension.The new £27 million Mary Rose Museum opens in Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard. More vampires in Byzantium."Money, The Unauthorised Biography" by Felix Martin sets out to answer the question: "What is Money and how does it work?"And ITV's answer to Channel 4's "Homelands" is "The Americans"
Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar opens at the Bush Theatre; Olivier Assayas' film Something in the Air; the acclaimed author James Salter's All That Is; Michael Landy's Saints Alive at the National Gallery and The Iraq War on BBC2. Tom Sutcliffe talks to Tom Holland, Kit Davis and Naomi Alderman
Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby starring Leonardo diCaprio; Public Enemy at the Young Vic; The Round House by Louise Erdrich; Propaganda at the British Library; Up the Women on BBC4 and Psychobitches on Sky Arts. Ekow Eshun, Hadley Freeman and Louise Doughty join Tom Sutcliffe.
Mira Nair's film of The Reluctant Fundamentalist starring Riz Ahmed; Pinter's The Hothouse with Simon Russell Beale and John Simm; The Fall starring Gillian Anderson on BBC2; Terry Eagleton's How to Read Literature; and coming-of-age movie Mud. Aminatta Forna, John Mullan and Michael Arditti join Tom Sutcliffe
The Pajama Game in a new Richard Eyre production; Pedro Almodovar's I'm So Excited!; Lionel Shriver's novel of obesity, Big Brother; Ellen Gallagher AxME at Tate Modern and Hannibal on Sky Living. Malorie Blackman, Stephanie Merritt and Giles Fraser join Tom Sutcliffe.
Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear in Othello at the National Theatre; Steve Coogan in Michael Winterbottom's film The Look of Love; Sam Byers' novel Idiopathy; New Order: British Art Today at the Saatchi Gallery; and Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi and Frances de la Tour in new sitcom Vicious. Dreda Say Mitchell, David Benedict and Cahal Dallat join Tom Sutcliffe