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)

  • Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby and Propaganda

    Sat, 18 May 13

    Duration:
    42 mins

    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.

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  • Pinter's The Hothouse & The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    Sat, 11 May 13

    Duration:
    42 mins

    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

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  • Almodovar's I'm So Excited! and The Pajama Game

    Sat, 4 May 13

    Duration:
    42 mins

    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.

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  • Adrian Lester in Othello and The Look of Love

    Sat, 27 Apr 13

    Duration:
    42 mins

    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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  • Promised Land and John le Carre's A Delicate Truth

    Sat, 20 Apr 13

    Duration:
    42 mins

    Matt Damon in Promised Land; Howard Brenton's new play #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei; John le Carre's new novel A Delicate Truth; the paintings of Richard Patterson and Ben Elton's new sitcom The Wright Way. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Bidisha, Christopher Frayling and Miranda Sawyer.

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  • The Rijksmuseum and Once

    Sat, 13 Apr 13

    Duration:
    42 mins

    The Rijksmuseum re-opens in Amsterdam; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new novel Americanah; and the musical Once arrives on the London stage.

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  • Julian Barnes' Levels of Life and A Late Quartet

    Sat, 6 Apr 13

    Duration:
    42 mins

    Julian Barnes' new novel Levels of Life; A Late Quartet, a film starring Christopher Walken; and an exhibition of the photographs of Bert Hardy.

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  • Pompeii at the British Museum and Trance

    Sat, 30 Mar 13

    Duration:
    42 mins

    Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum at the British Museum; Judi Dench in Peter and Alice; Danny Boyle's film Trance; Ghana Must Go, a debut novel by Taiye Selasi; and The Village on BBC1. Kamila Shamsie, Dominic Sandbrook and Louise Doughty join Sarfraz Manzoor to review.

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  • The Book of Mormon and Compliance: 23 Mar 13

    Sat, 23 Mar 13

    Duration:
    42 mins

    The Book of Mormon on the London stage; Craig Zobel's film Compliance; Mohsin Hamid's new novel How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia; Designs of the Year 2013; and Revolution on Sky1. David Schneider, Ekow Eshun and Kathryn Hughes join Tom Sutcliffe.

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  • Nicole Kidman in The Paperboy; In the Flesh

    Sat, 16 Mar 13

    Duration:
    42 mins

    Lee Daniels' film The Paperboy with Nicole Kidman; Kevin Maher's coming-of-age in 80s Dublin novel The Fields; George Bellows at the Royal Academy; A Thousand Miles of History, a new play about Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Andy Warhol starring Adam Riches; and zombie drama In the Flesh on BBC3. Bidisha, Deborah Moggach and Dreda Say Mitchell join Tom Sutcliffe.

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