05/03/2011

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests cultural historian Sir Christopher Frayling and writers Rowan Pelling and Ekow Eshun review the cultural highlights of the week including The Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium.

The Wizard of Oz is Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's first collaboration on a West End musical since Evita in 1976. Danielle Hope stars as Dorothy - she landed the role by winning the BBC talent show Over The Rainbow - and Michael Crawford is the Wizard.

Justin Cartwright's novel Other People's Money tells the story of a 350 year old family-owned bank - Tubal and Co. - which finds itself in trouble after its chairman, Julian Trevelyan-Tubal, leads it into the perilous waters of casino banking.

Archipelago is Joanna Hogg's second film and, like her debut Unrelated, is about the cracks which emerge in an English upper middle class family on holiday. The location is the Scilly Isles and tensions and resentment soon bubble to the surface within the confines of the idyllic rented house.

Nancy Spero was a celebrated American artist and feminist. The exhibition of her work at the Serpentine Gallery in London was initiated by the Centre Pompidou and is the first major Spero show since the artist's death in 2009.

Twenty Twelve is a new BBC4 comedy by John Morton who also wrote People Like Us. It takes the form of a mock documentary following the progress of the Olympic Deliverance Commission in the run up to the 2012 London games and stars Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod.