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This week on The Review Show
Kirsty Wark and panel discuss the death of JD Salinger and images of the afterlife in the new film The Lovely Bones, plus a round up of the week's cultural highlights.
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JD SALINGER
Catcher in the Rye has been described as one of the most influential novels of a generation. It introduced the world to the life of iconoclastic teenager Holden Caulfield - who became the model for a raft of future adolescent rebels without a cause. More than 60 million copies have been sold worldwide. Tonight our panel will assess the extraordinary legacy of Catcher in the Rye.
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THE LOVELY BONES: VISIONS OF THE AFTERLIFE
Alice Seabold’s novel The Lovely Bones (2002) was an international best seller. The story of the rape, murder and subsequent after life of Susie Salmond, a 14 year old girl, was an over night success. The story is told from the point of view of Susie as she experiences her own ‘personal heaven’ and looks down at, and almost interacts with, her grieving family. Peter Jackson bought the rights for the film personally and takes a diversion from mammoth monkeys, orcs and elves to portray a different kind of fantasy world. The book is set in the early 1970s, and Peter Jackson uses this to influence the iconography of Susie’s afterlife.
Using The Lovely Bones as inspiration - our guests discuss recent portrayals of the afterlife. We’ll also be hearing from David Eagleman - author of the highly acclaimed ‘Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlife’ - and an interview with Antonia Fraser about Harold Pinter and his poem ‘To A’. We also discuss the ‘angel industry’ and increasing popularity of angels as guardians. What do our portrayals of the afterlife tell us about how we live now? -
DAVID EAGLEMAN - SUM: FORTY TALES OF THE AFTERLIFE
Sorry, you must enable Javascript to display media contentDavid Eagleman tells us about Sum: Forty Tales of the Afterlife.
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ANTONIA FRASER: MUST YOU GO
Sorry, you must enable Javascript to display media contentAntonia Fraser on Harold Pinter's ideas about afterlife.
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VAN GOGH
By allowing the audience a rare view of Van Gogh's personal correspondence The Royal Academy's new exhibition sets out to challenge the public perception of Van Gogh as an erratic genius. Over 35 of the artist's original letters, rarely exhibited to the public due to their fragility, are on display together with around 65 paintings and 30 drawings.
Van Gogh was a prolific and eloquent correspondent. The majority of his letters were written to his younger brother Theo who supported him throughout his difficult artistic career. They examine themes such as the role of colour in painting, the cycles of nature, friendship, religion and literature. The letters also contain sketches of works in progress allowing us an insight into the way he thought about and planned his work. Our panel will discuss whether the letters and sketches offer any fresh perspective on Van Gogh; by stripping away the myths can we focus on his art? -
HOT CHIP
Plus - electro-poppers Hot Chip, possibly one of the most influential bands in British music over the past decade, who are just about to release their fourth studio album ‘One Life Stand’ - tell us what's floating their cultural boat at the moment.
Band members Al and Alexis tell us about what’s hot on their stereos at the moment, why they love Jeremy Deller’s new collection of proverbs for Piccadilly Line tube staff, and talk about their current reading - including Raymond Carver’s unedited short stories and Lydia Davis. -
TONY BLAIR
Our panel will also discuss Tony Blair's appearance at the Iraq Inquiry - which is bound to provoke acres of coverage in the weekend press. Will he use the "s" word?
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A.L. KENNEDY
Writer Alison Louise Kennedy was born in Dundee, and lives in Glasgow. Her books include three collections of stories, six novels, and two works of nonfiction. Since the publication of her first collection of short fiction, Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains (1991), Kennedy has been acclaimed for her innovative voice. Other titles include So I Am Glad (1995), Everything You Need (1999), Indelible Acts: Stories (2004), Paradise (2005), Day (2007) and What Becomes (2009). She has received many literary prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Encore Award, the Costa Prize and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. Kennedy has written for The Guardian newspaper and other titles, has judged for the Booker and Orange Prizes, and is also a university lecturer on creative writing.
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PAUL MORLEY
Paul Morley wrote for the NME between 1977 and 1983 and has published several books about music including Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City, and Ask: The Chatter of Pop, a collection of his journalism from the NME period. A memoir, Nothing, a true fantasy about the effects of his father's suicide, was published by Faber in 2000. Paul was a member of the eighties group, The Art of Noise. He has also contributed, along with Michael Stipe, William Gibson and Salman Rushdie, to Anton Corbijn's book of U2 photography, U2 and I. As art director for the pop group Frankie Goes to Hollywood he was responsible for the 'Frankie Says...' T-shirts. He has written for Esquire, GQ Magazine, The New Statesman, The Guardian, The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph.
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KATE MOSSE
Kate Mosse is best selling author of Labyrinth and follow up novel Sepulchre, historical fiction based in modern and medieval France. Her short stories and articles have appeared in a range of publications. Mosse is the Co-Founder & Honorary Director of the Orange Prize for Fiction, set up in 1996 to celebrate outstanding fiction by women. She advises Arts Council England on a range of reading, creative writing and literacy initiatives. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Mosse was named European Woman of Achievement for Contribution to the Arts in 2000. In 2006, she was awarded an Honorary Masters Degree by the University of Chichester, her hometown, for her contribution to the arts. In 2009, Kate was invited to be an Ambassador for the Aude Tourist Board, the region of France where her novels are set.
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RICHARD COLES
The Rev Richard Coles is curate of St Paul's, Knightsbridge, Chaplain to the Royal Academy of Music and a former member of the Communards. In the eighties he worked as a theatre musician before joining Bronski Beat to play saxophone. He and singer Jimmy Somerville left in 1984 to form The Communards and went onto have a string of hits, including Don’t Leave Me This Way, the biggest selling single of 1986. In 1990 he gave up pop stardom to pursue theological studies at King’s College London. He went on to compose music for films and television as well as writing for newspapers and magazines before going to theological college. He was ordained in the Church of England in 2005, worked first in a parish in Boston, then Knightsbridge.
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