Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week’s cultural highlights on BBC Radio 4.
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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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sat, 9 Mar 13
Duration:
42 mins
Helen Mirren as The Queen in The Audience; Steven Soderbergh's film Side Effects; Kate Atkinson's novel "Life After Life"; David Bowie's new album The Next Day; and BBC1's "The Lady Vanishes" compared with Hitchcock's. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Jim White, Maev Kennedy and Alex Preston.
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