Saturday Review
Summary: Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week’s cultural highlights on BBC Radio 4.
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Tom Sutcliffe and his guests historian Amanda Vickery, novelist Adam Mars Jones and film-maker James Runcie review the cultural highlights of the week including 3D films by Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers Iain Sinclair and Natalie Haynes and anthropologist Kit Davis review the cultural highlights of the week including Neil LaBute's new play In A Forest Dark and Deep.
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests creative director of the Royal Opera House Deborah Bull, poet Cahal Dallat and writer Miranda Sawyer review the cultural highlights of the week including Doug Liman's film Fair Game and November by Sean O'Brien.
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.
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer David Aaronovitch, historian Kathryn Hughes and comedian Danny Robins review the week's cultural highlights including Frankenstein at the National Theatre in London and Animal Kingdom.
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelists Terence Blacker and Deborah Moggach and theatre writer David Benedict review the week's cultural highlights including Anna Nicole at the Royal Opera House
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests poet Craig Raine and writers Susan Jeffreys and Kevin Jackson review the week's cultural highlights including True Grit and The Children's Hour.
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers Bidisha and Sarfraz Manzoor and musician Pat Kane review the week's cultural highlights including The Fighter and Channel 4 drama The Promise.
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelist Liz Jensen, historian Dominic Sandbrook and critic John Mullan review the cultural highlights of the week including Boardwalk Empire on Sky Atlantic and Biutiful.
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests playwright Mark Ravenhill, academic and critic Maria Delgado and novelist Michael Arditti review the cultural highlights of the week including Black Swan and David Vann's novel Caribou Island.
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer Paul Morley, novelist Dreda Say Mitchell and broadcaster and cleric Richard Coles review the cultural highlights of the week including Blue Valentine and Linda Grant's novel We Had It So Good.
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelist Louise Doughty, literary critic John Carey and comedian Natalie Haynes review the cultural highlights of the week including The King's Speech and Paul Bailey's novel Chapman's Odyssey.
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Director of the National Theatre of Scotland Vicky Featherstone, Director of the Serpentine Gallery Julia Peyton-Jones and writer and Artistic Director of the Bath Literature Festival James Runcie look at the future of funding for the arts and ask if the new austerity is a problem - or an opportunity? Historian Dominic Sandbrook, theatre critic David Benedict, former Chairman of the Arts Council Sir Christopher Frayling; Chairman of the UK Film Council Tim Bevan and CEO of Faber & Faber Stephen Page also offer their views on what happens to the cultural life of the nation when the purse-strings are tightened.
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests the writers Kevin Jackson and Bidisha and the historian Kathryn Hughes review the cultural highlights of the week including A Flea In Her Ear at the Old Vic and Norman Rockwell's America at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests crime novelist Denise Mina, comedian and writer Doc Brown and journalist Matthew D'Ancona review the week's cultural highlights including Season's Greetings at the National Theatre and The Tourist.