Saturday Review show

Saturday Review

Summary: Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week’s cultural highlights on BBC Radio 4.

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Podcasts:

 SR: Ryan Gosling in Only God Forgives; Roddy Doyle's The Guts | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:56

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

 SR: Frances Ha with Greta Gerwig, Barnum and The Mill | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:58

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.

 SR: The World's End and A Season in the Congo | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:43

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

 SR: Top of the Lake and Blancanieves | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 42:03

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

 SR: Kenneth Branagh in Macbeth | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:33

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

 SR: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Lowry 29 Jun 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:57

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.

 SR: Before Midnight and Conor McPherson new play | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:58

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.

 SR: The Amen Corner and The White Queen | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:44

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.

 SR: Behind the Candelabra and Chagall | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:54

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.

 SR: Byzantium and the new Mary Rose Museum | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:32

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"

 SR: All That Is by James Salter and new play Disgraced | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:54

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

 SR: Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby and Propaganda | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:59

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.

 SR: Pinter's The Hothouse & The Reluctant Fundamentalist | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:58

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

 SR: Almodovar's I'm So Excited! and The Pajama Game | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:54

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.

 SR: Adrian Lester in Othello and The Look of Love | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:53

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

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