Saturday Review
Summary: Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week’s cultural highlights on BBC Radio 4.
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Podcasts:
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.
The Rijksmuseum re-opens in Amsterdam; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new novel Americanah; and the musical Once arrives on the London stage.
Julian Barnes' new novel Levels of Life; A Late Quartet, a film starring Christopher Walken; and an exhibition of the photographs of Bert Hardy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Film director Joe Wright's first stage production, Trelawny of the Wells; Richard Gere in Arbitrage; JM Coetzee's novel The Childhood of Jesus; Bluestone 42 on BBC3 and Barocci at the National Gallery. Patrick Gale, Aminatta Forna and Natalie Haynes join Tom Sutcliffe
Cloud Atlas, Lichtenstein at Tate Modern, A Chorus Line, Give Me Everything You Have by James Lasdun and ITV’s Broadchurch are all reviewed by Tom Sutcliffe and his guests - artist Grayson Perry, playwright Laura Wade and writer Susan Jeffreys
A Life of Galileo, Mark Ravenhill's adaptation for the RSC of Brecht's play; Maggie O'Farrell's latest novel, Instructions for a Heatwave; The Bride and the Bachelors showcasing Duchamp and his influence; and V, Tony Harrison's powerful and expletive-heavy poem, about to be broadcast on Radio 4. Presented by Tom Sutcliffe with Kevin Jackson, Kit Davis and Bidisha.
Wreck-It Ralph, the latest Disney film; Ice Age Art at the British Museum; In the Beginning was the End, a new show from site-responsive company dreamthinkspeak; Harvest, Jim Crace's new novel; and Mysteries of Lisbon directed by Raul Ruiz. David Schneider, Gillian Slovo and Giles Fraser join Tom Sutcliffe.
Stephen Poliakoff's Dancing on the Edge; Denzel Washington in Flight; Port at the National Theatre; Mimi by Lucy Ellmann and Light Show at the Hayward Gallery reviewed by Tom Sutcliffe with Naomi Alderman, Sarfraz Manzoor and Kerry Shale
Michael Grade, Dreda Say Mitchell and Deborah Bull join Tom Sutcliffe to review: Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty; Dave Eggers' novel A Hologram for the King, Steven Spielberg's Lincoln; The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida Theatre and Manet: Portraying Life at the Royal Academy in London.
Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained; No Quarter by Polly Stenham at the Royal Court Upstairs; The Starboard Sea, a first novel by Amber Dermont; Murder in the Library at the British Library; and Louie, Louis CK's Emmy-award winning comedy. Kamila Shamsie, Peter Kemp and Paul Morley join Tom Sutcliffe
Les Miserables on the big screen with Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, The View From The Shard, Fiona Shaw performs The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Nicholas Royle's "First Novel", and Utopia on Channel 4 are reviewed by Louise Doughty, Philip Hensher and Pat Kane. Presented by Tom Sutcliffe