Riot Club, Ballyturk, Mr Mac and Me, Constable, The Driver, 20 Sept 12




Saturday Review show

Summary: The film Riot Club fictionalises the riotous behaviour of Oxford's notorious Bullingdon Club, whose members included David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson. Enda Walsh's new play Ballyturk starring Cillan Murphy and Stephen Rea has been compared to Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot. The novel Mr Mac and Me by Esther Freud is a blend of fact and fiction which sees the architect Charles Mackintosh through the eyes of a 12 year old boy. Constable, the Making of a Master, a new exhibition at London's V&A, shows his work alongside the Old Masters whom he copied so fastidiously. The Driver, a new BBC One drama written by Danny Brocklehurst and starring David Morrissey, focuses on an ordinary man who due to a family mystery and frustration with his job and life, makes a terrible decision.