SR: Rose Tremain; The Imitation Game; Wildefire; Allen Jones; Remember Me 15 Nov 2014




Saturday Review show

Summary: Rose Tremain's latest book is a collection of short stories called The American Lover; how do her short stories compare to her novels? Benedict Cumberbatch plays the WWII codebreaker Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. How successfully does it breathe new life into the biography of a private man? Roy Williams' new play Wildefire, deals with 'the precarious world of modern policing'; how does a good copper stay good when her world turns nasty? British artist Allen Jones is probably best known for 3 works he created 45 years ago; Hat Stand, Table and Chair. An exhibition at London's Royal Academy looks back at his career. Do accusations that his early work demeans women still hold sway in the more broadminded 21st century? Michael Palin returns to a British TV series for the first time in more than two decades in Remember Me on BBC1 - a supernatural thriller.