Saturday Review

Saturday Review

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

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Recent episodes (10)

  • SR 26 May 12: The week's cultural highlights

    Sat, 26 May 12

    Duration:
    42 mins

    Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelists Lionel Shriver and Andrew O' Hagan and theatre writer David Benedict review the cultural highlights of the week including Wes Anderson's film Moonrise Kingdom.

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  • 19 May 2012 The week's cultural highlights

    Mon, 21 May 12

    Duration:
    42 mins

    Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer James Runcie, director of the Serpentine Gallery Julia Peyton-Jones and comedian David Schneider review the week's cultural highlights including the play The Sunshine Boys, starring Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths; Emily Perkins' novel The Forrests; Edward Burtynsky's project 'Oil' at the newly refurbished Photographer's Gallery; Sacha Baron Cohen's latest film The Dictator and Paul Abott's latest television drama Hit and Miss, starring Chloe Sevigny.

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  • SR 12 May 12: The week's cultural highlights

    Sat, 12 May 12

    Duration:
    42 mins

    Tom Sutcliffe and his guests the writers Miranda Sawyer and Ekow Eshun and the historian Kathryn Hughes review the week's cultural highlights including Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel.

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  • SR 05 May 12: The week's cultural highlights

    Sat, 5 May 12

    Duration:
    43 mins

    Tom Sutcliffe and his guests academic and critic John Mullan, anthropologist Kit Davis and poet Cahal Dallat review the cultural highlights of the week including Mike Bartlett's play Love, Love, Love at the Royal Court in London.

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  • SR 28 Apr 2012: The week's cultural highlights

    Sat, 28 Apr 12

    Duration:
    42 mins

    Sarfraz Manzoor and his guests Lisa Appignanesi, Kevin Jackson and Natalie Haynes review the week's cultural highlights including Joss Whedon's superhero action film Avengers Assemble.

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  • SR 21 Apr 12: The week's cultural highlights

    Sat, 21 Apr 12

    Duration:
    42 mins

    Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer Susan Jeffreys, actor Kerry Shale and literary critic John Carey review the week's cultural highlights including Michael Frayn's new novel Skios.

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  • SR 14 Apr 12: The week's cultural highlights

    Sat, 14 Apr 12

    Duration:
    43 mins

    Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelist Kamila Shamsie, writer and columnist David Aaronovitch and playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker review the week's cultural highlights including Anthony Page's production of Long Day's Journey Into Night at the Apollo Theatre in London.

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  • SR 07 Apr 12: The week's cultural highlights

    Sat, 7 Apr 12

    Duration:
    43 mins

    Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelist Adam Mars Jones, BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall and Deborah Bull from King's Cultural Institute review the week's cultural highlights including Roger Allam as Uncle Vanya at Chichester Festival Theatre.

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  • 31 March 12: The week's cultural highlights

    Sat, 31 Mar 12

    Duration:
    42 mins

    Tom Sutcliffe and his guests: novelist Gillian Slovo, historian Kathryn Hughes and theatre critic David Benedict and discuss the week's cultural highlights including The Duchess of Malfi.

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  • SR 24 Mar 12: The week's cultural highlights

    Sat, 24 Mar 12

    Duration:
    42 mins

    Tom Sutcliffe and his guests actress Fiona Shaw, playwright Mark Ravenhill and writer Susan Jeffreys review the week's cultural highlights including The Master and Margarita at the Barbican in London.

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