Episodes

  • The Nest is the new Sunday night drama on BBC1 that raises questions around the ethics of surrogacy as a wealthy couple invite a young woman whose past is not known to them into their lives.
    The Truth is a French/Japanese production directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda who won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2018 for his film Shoplifters. It stars Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche in the story of an ageing actress who publishes her memoirs and is confronted by her daughter.
    Evie Wyld was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2013. Her new novel, The Bass Rock, tells the story of three generations of women whose fates are linked.
    Two exhibitions at Compton Verney that have sadly had to close because of coronavirus are kept alive by our critics: Cranach: Artist and Innovator and Fabric: Touch and Identity.
    And we suggest some culture that might already be on your shelves or on a screen near you to enjoy if you're stuck indoors.
    Tom Sutcliffe's guests this week are Charlotte Mullins, Bob and Roberta Smith and Laurence Scott.

    Podcast Extra recommendations
    Bob: Paul Klee, On Modern Art
    Certain Blacks, album by The Art Ensemble of Chicago
    The Letters of Van Gogh

    Charlotte: The Gallery of Lost Art - as she explains, what's left of it can be found at galleryoflostart.com and via Tate website
    The West Wing

    Laurence: Star Trek: the Next Generation, all 7 seasons

    Tom: Contagion and, as always, Call My Agent

    Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
    Producer: Sarah Johnson

    Image: Emily (SOPHIE RUNDLE) in The Nest
    Credit: Mark Mainz / Studio Lambert / BBC

  • Misbehaviour is a new film about the 1970 Miss World pageant which saw the first black Miss World and was also disrupted by the nascent Women's Liberation movement who threw flour bombs at host Bob Hope
    Sebastian Barry's play On Blueberry Hill is set in a prison cell where two men's stories of how they got there become intertwined.
    Abi Daré's novel The Girl With The Louding Voice is the tale of Adunni, a fourteen year old Nigerian girl who has to go into domestic service in Lagos but is determined to better herself
    A new retrospective of the work and life of Andy Warhol has just opened at Tate Modern in London, including many works never previoulsy exhibtited in the UK before
    Two new TV comedies with impeccable pedigrees - ITV's Kate and Koji (written by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin - who wrote Outnumbered) and Breeders (co-produced by Chris Addison and Simon Blackwell) on Sky TV - have just started. Theyre very different.. are they very funny?

    Tom Sutcliffe guests are Sara Colllins, Alex Preston and Tiffany Jenkins. The producer is Oliver Jones

    Podcast Extra recommendations:
    Sara: Toni Mossion: The Pieces I Am + Fons Americanus by Kara Walker at Tate Modern
    Alex: The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
    Tiffany: Music Clubs - Spin in OXford and House Concerts @42 in Edinburgh
    Tom: James Shapiro: Shakespeare In a Divided America

    Main image: Abi Daré © Alero Marcel

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  • Hilary Mantel's new novel - The Mirror and The Light - is the final part of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. The previous two parts have sold millions of copies worldwide and garned prizes from all quarters. Can this one compare?
    The Mikvah Project is a new play at The Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. Two Jewish men meet every Friday for ritual cleansing and a close friendship develops.
    Sulphur and White is a new British film which tells the true story of a highly successful banker who suffered repeated sexual abuse as a child and how this drove him to seek justice for all abused children
    A new exhibition at The Hayward Gallery in London - Among The Trees - looks at the crucuial role that trees play in our lives and imaginations

    Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Christopher Frayling, Abigail Morris and Catherine O'Flynn. The producer is Oliver Jones

    Podcast Extra recommendations:
    Catherine - The National Telephone Kiosk Collection in Bromsgrove and the 1972 film La Cabina
    Christopher - Who's Afaid of Virginia Woolf at The Tobacco Factory in Bristol and Prints by Norman Ackroyd at Watts Gallery near Guildford
    Abigail - Carravagio in Rome and Bonus Family on Netflix
    Tom - English Monsters by James Scudamore

    Main image: Terraza Alta II, 2018 by Abel Rodríguez
    Acrylic and ink on paper
    © the artist and Instituto de Visión 2020

  • The newest film by French director Céline Sciamma (Tomboy, Girlhood) is Portrait Of A Lady On Fire. An 18th century painter is commissioned to paint a bride-to-be's wedding portrait and falls in love with her subject
    Women Beware Women is a play by Middleton just opened at The Globe Theatre in London. How do you navigate a society in which women are consciously and unconsciously commodified, coerced and controlled?
    Australian author Christos Tsiolkas came to international attention with his best-selling novel The Slap. His latest - Damascus - retells the story of St Paul's conversion.
    Leon Spilliaert was a Belgian painter in the early 20th century whose work often reflected his insomnia and seaside settings. A new exhibition at London's Royal Academy brings this lesser-known artist into the spotlight
    Malorie Blackman's successful Noughts and Crosses novels have been adapted for TV and they're coming to BBC1 at the beginning of March

    Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Sathnam Sanghera, Muriel Zhaga and Susan Jeffreys. The producer is Oliver Jones

    Podcast Extra recommendations:
    Sathnam - Jay-Z on Spotify
    Susan - Choirs and singing by candlelight
    Muriel - making Delia Smith's marmalade and rewatching Friends
    Tom - A.N. Wilson's The Mind of the Apostl e

    Main image © 2020 Curzon Artificial Eye

  • Mexican documentary Midnight Family follows a family-run private ambulance in Mexico City racing to the scenes of accidents in order to earn a living
    Masculinities:Liberation Through Photography, is a new exhibition at The Barbican in London, about how masculinity is experienced, perfomed, coded and socially constructed.
    Actress is the latest novel from Irish author by Anne Enright. A daughter looks back at her sometimes fractious relationship with her famous mother
    A revival of Caryl Churchill's 2000 play Far Away has just opened at London's Donmar Warehouse
    Teenage existence is never easy and having superpowers can only make it even more so. I Am Not Okay With This on Netflix is a new series with an adolescent female lead...

    Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Blake Morrison, Amber Butchart and Stephanie Merritt. The producer is Oliver Jones

    Podcast Extra recommendations:

    Stephanie: The Laramie Project
    Amber: We Will Walk at Turner Contemporary in Margate. And the sauna on Margate Beach
    Blake: When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann
    Tom: Midsommer


    Main image: Taliban portrait. Kandahar, Afghanistan. 2002 © Collection T.Dworzak/Magnum Photos

  • Tom Stoppard has a new play - Leopoldstadt - a slightly autobiographical telling of the story of several generations of a wealthy Jewish family in Europe over 6 decades, from 1899

    How many different cinematic versions of Jane Austen novels does the world need? What does The latest Emma - directed by a former photographer/ pop video director - bring that's new?

    A Small Revolution in Germany is the latest novel from Philip hensher. It follows the diverging paths of a group of young politically charged leftists

    The End is a very darkly comic TV series set in a retirement village on Australia's Gold coast where Edie - played by Harriet Walter - ends up after trying to kill herself

    A retrospective of the video work of British artist Steve McQueen has just opened at Tate Modern in London. 14 video installations cover his work from 1992 to today

    Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Ayesha Hazarika, David Benedict and Julia Raeside. The producer is Oliver Jones

    Podcast Extra recommendations:

    Juiia: Julia Jacklin - Crushing
    David: Tony Kushner's The Visit at The National Theatre and Tana Frech - In The Woods
    Ayesha: BBC This Life box set and female comedians live
    Tom: In Wordsworth's Footseps on Radio 4 and American Factory documentary

    Main image credit: Marc Brenner

  • Director Agnieszka Holland assembles a cast including James Norton and Vanessa Kirby to tell the story of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones who in 1933 travelled to Soviet Russia and told the truth about the famine in Ukraine.

    At the National Theatre, Clint Dyer directs the play he has co-written with Roy Williams, Death of England, starring Rafe Spall as a white working-class man whose father has died and who has to face up to his conflicted feelings about his country and the people who live in it.

    Ta-Nehisi Coates has earned a great reputation as a writer and thinker on race in America. His first novel, The Water Dancer, is the story of Hiram Walker who becomes involved in a struggle to leave slavery and save those close to him.

    British Baroque at Tate Britain takes a look at art from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 until the death of Queen Anne in 1714, highlighting the jostling for power at court and beyond and illustrating the creation of the great buildings of the age.

    And This Life returns to BBC4, a drama of young people entering the world of work in the law, perhaps best remembered for the simmering sexual tension between Miles and Anna. Will its fans from 1996 stick with it - and can it draw a new audience?

    Tom Sutcliffe's guests this week are Jen Harvie, Carl Anka and Terence Blacker.




    Podcast Extra recommendations
    Carl: YouTube Channel SB Nation and Brian Phillips' obit of Kobe Bryant available here: https://www.theringer.com/nba/2020/1/30/21114600/kobe-bryant-legacy
    Jen: film, Parasite on general release; Tate Britain's exhibition
    Terence: the music of Paolo Conte
    Tom: Edmund de Waal's book The White Road, and Zadie Smith's essay on Kara Walker in the NY Review of Books


    Photo: James Norton and Vanessa Kirby,
    (c) Signature Entertainment

  • Ingmar Bergman's 1966 film Persona has been adapted into a stage play and it is the opening production at the newly revamped Riverside Studios in London The Lighthouse, starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson is a black and white film set in a claustrophobic remote isolated lighthouse where the two keepers begin to rub each other up the wrong way
    William Gibson is a sci-fi writer whose latest novel Agency imagines a dystopian future world where time travel is possible but only virtually
    The Art, Design and Future of Fungi is an exhibition at Somerset House in London which brings together work by artists and designers, exploring mycophilia, magic mushrooms and fungi futures
    Art On The BBC is a new documentary series which delves into 60 years of arts coverage on BBC TV, exploring how TV portrayal has changed.

    Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Meg Rosoff, Katie Puckrik and Colin Grant. The producer is Oliver Jones

    Podcast Extra recommendations

    Meg: Jo Jo Rabbit film and Beryl at The Arcola Theatre
    Katie: Paris In The Spring CD on Ace Records
    Colin: The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
    Tom: Cheer documentary on Netflix

    Photo: Beatrix Potter, Hygrophorus puniceus, pencil and watercolour, 7.10.1894, collected at Smailholm Tower, Kelso, courtesy of the Armitt Trust

  • Armando Iannucci has taken on Dickens' David Copperfield with Dev Patel in the lead role
    A new play by Lucy Kirkwood, Welkin, has opened at London's National Theatre. The Welkin is set in Norfolk in 1759, when a jury of matrons is called to try a female murder suspect who is 'pleading the belly' in order to avoid execution
    Motherwell is the memoir of journalist, the late Deborah Orr recounting her childhood and growing up in Scotland and trying to break from her family
    Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media is a new exhibition at London's Foundling Museum which looks at how artists have shown pregnant women over the centuries. Admission fee charged.
    The Windermere Children on BBC2 is the story of 300 Polish child survivors of concentration camps who were brought to the UK after the war and billetted in The Lake District

    Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Helen Lewis, Catherine Yass and Mark Billingham
    The producer is Oliver Jones


    Podcast Extra recommendations:

    Catherine: Steve McQueen Year 3 at Tate Britain & A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride & Yinka Shonibare's Farm in Nigeria
    Mark: Elvis Presley 68 Comeback Special & Long Bright River by Liz Moore
    Helen: House Of Glass by Hadley Freeman & In The Darkroom by Susan Faludi
    Tom: Daniel Finkelstein's tweet thread about his mother's escape from Germany & Miss Austen by Gill Hornby & Shook opening at the Trafalgar Studios in April.

  • A triple bill of Samuel Beckett plays has just started at London's Jermyn Street Theatre. Directed by Trevor Nunn, it's a chance to see Krapp's Last Tape as well as two lesser-known works - Eh Joe and The Old Tune.https://bit.ly/2Rm8AtG https://bit.ly/2uWA95b
    Bombshell has been Oscar nominated. It's the story of Roger Ailes' reign at Fox News and the sexual harrasment cases that were brought against him. It stars Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie
    Armando Iannucci has a new comedy TV series on HBO. Avenue 5 is set onboard a luxurious interplanetary cruiseship when things start to malfunction.
    American Dirt is a new novel from Jeanine Cummins which follows a Mexican woman and her young son who have to flee to El Norte to escape drug cartel violence. They have become migrants
    Tullio Crali was an Italian futurist painter who has an exhibition at London's Estorick Collection. He was a fervent futurist and you can see his paintings and sassintessi - compositions of stones and natural found objects

    Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Rosie Boycott, Ekow Eshun and Amanda Craig. The producer is Oliver Jones

    Podcast Extra recommendations
    Amanda: Kara Walker at Tate Modern and The Gulbenkian in Lisbon
    Rosie: Garden Museum at Newt Hotel in Somerset
    Ekow: Atlantiques on Netflix
    Tom: The Kinks' Days on Radio 4's Soul Music and Lucy Hughes-Hallett's The Pike


    Main image: Detail taken from Tricolour Wings, 1932 by Tullio Crali

  • Sam Mendes' film 1917 is set during the First World War and based on his Grandfather's experiences during the conflict. It's already won a Golden Globe and is touted for more awards glory. What do our reviewers make of it?
    This Time is a show by the group Ockham's Razor and part of The London International Mime Festival 2020. It tells an inter-generational story through circus skills with a 4 person troupe whose member range from 13 to 60
    Albanian author Ismail Kadare was the inaugural winner of the Man Booker International Prize and his latest novel to be translated into English is The Doll, It's the story of his mother and her difficulties when she married his father
    British artist Saad Qureshi has an exhibition at The Chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Something About Paradise considers the widely differing ideas of what paradise might look like
    BBC1 has a new sitcom,King Gary, co-written by and starring Tom Davis as Gary King a builder and building entrepreneur. It was launched with a pilot episode last year and is now a six part series.

    Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Sarah Crompton, Rajan Datar and Lynn Nead. The producer is Oliver Jones

    Podcast Extra recommendations:

    Sarah: Bombshell, Little Women and Top Hat
    Lynn: Musicals at the BFI and her son's vegan Christmas cake
    Rajan: Death Of A Salesman with Wendell Pearce, and In The Viper's Shadow by Prince Fatty and Play Well at the Wellcome Collection
    Tom: Guys and Dolls


    Photo by Nik Mackey

  • There's a new all-star Little Women on the big screen. The cast includes Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emily Watson, Laura Dern, Timothee Chalamet and Meryl Streep. Louisa May Alcott's novel has been a popular text for film makers since the first silent version in 1912 - is there anything new which director Greta Gerwig can bring to this version?
    HG Wells' novel The War Of The Worlds is probably best known to many people as the Jeff Wayne musical version, it's the UK's 32nd best-selling studio album of all time. It's been a touring show, made into a video game and now it's become an immersive theatrical experience,complete with AI headsets.
    Untitled Goose Game is an award-winning game in which the player is a goose who wanders around irritating characters by honking and flapping at them. We look at a couple of graphic novels: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me and November.
    Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in America. A podcast series “1619,” from The New York Times, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, examines the long shadow of that fateful moment. You're Dead To Me is a BBC podcast series which describes itself as "a history podcast for people who don't like history". Presented by Greg Jenner, it looks at a variety of subjects from a lighthearted perspective

    Jordan Erica Webber's guests are Arifa Akbar, Naima Khan and Carl Anka. The producer is Oliver Jones.

    Podcast Extra Recommendations:
    Naima - Christina Craig; Mint Tea and Other Stories
    Carl - Super Eyepatch Wolf
    Arifa - Death Of England at The National Theatre
    Jordan Spinning by Tilley Walden

  • Find out what Saturday Review listeners chose as their cultural highlights of 2019. We asked what you'd enjoyed this year and you told us about things we'd missed, disagreed about some cultural events we'd reviewed, and let us know about which ones had delighted you too. We'll discuss all the regular genres: films, theatre, exhibitions, books and television. And lots of items which we didn't get a chance to review from the past 12 months. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Tiffany Jenkins and Shahidha Bari as well as lots of listeners on the phone from around the country, telling us what particularly impressed them last year.


    Producer Oliver Jones

  • The much-anticipated film of Cats with its stellar and fur-enhanced cast including Judi Dench and Taylor Swift finally reaches the big screen. Catnip or catastrophe?

    Spooky offerings in the Christmas TV schedule this year include Martin's Close by Mark Gatiss on BBC 4 and Susan Hill's Ghost Story on Channel 5. How shiver-inducing are they?

    Nora Ephron's collection of essays on ageing and much else - I Feel Bad About My Neck - is being reissued with a new introduction by Dolly Alderton. It's a book that Alderton recommends giving as a present so Saturday Review suggests some other enduring literary choices that work as gifts.

    And Gypsy starring Ria Jones is on at the Royal Exchange, Manchester in a new production directed by Jo Davies. Do its songs keep our critics smiling in an age of different sexual politics?

    Rowan Pelling, Linda Grant and Kerry Shale join Tom Sutcliffe.

    The books recommended as gifts are:
    The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden
    Karoo by Steve Tesich
    The Prince of West End Avenue by Alan Isler
    Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
    Love Lessons by Joan Wyndham
    The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
    This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill
    Haunts of the Black Masseur by Charles Sprawson
    The Compleet Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle

    This week's podcast choices are:
    Linda: podcast and Radio 4 programme Fake Heiress
    Kerry: album If You're Going to the City, a tribute to Mose Allison
    Rowan: TV series The Young Offenders, BBC3
    Tom: TV series Watchmen, HBO

  • Aquarela is a movie about water...filmed at 96 frames per second- four times faster than normal and there are fewer than a handful of cinemas in then world with equipment to show it properly. What's them point?
    Swive (Elizabeth) at The Sam Wannamaker Playhouse imagines Elizabeth I from teenager to monarch and the wiles and strength ways she needed to keep on top
    Robert Musil's most famous book The Man Without Qualities was published in 1943 and a follow-up Agathe has just been published. Compiled by scholars it pulls together notes and drafts to make a sequel. Will the reviewers consider it worth the effort?
    Theaster Gates is an African American social practice installation artist who has a major new exhibition opening at Tate Liverpool
    Mike Bartlett wrote the wildly popular Dr Foster but hasn't quite matched its success since. Will his new ITV series Sticks and Stones (about workplace bullying) reestablish his success?

    Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Natalie Haynes, Abigail Morris and Bidisha. The producer is Oliver Jones

    Image: Nina Cassells
    (c) Johan Persson

    Podcast Extra recommendations

    Bidisha - Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen
    Abigail - Essays of E B White and Chernobyl podcast
    Natalie - Peaky Blinders and Lizzo
    Tom - Jo Jo Rabbit

  • Fairview is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play just opened at the Young Vic in London. It starts out like a conventional US African American dramedy and then begins to mess with the audience's expectations. How will our reviewers feel about it?
    Chinese film So Long My Son has won awards at international film festivals. It tells the story of a family over 30 years of turbulent Chinese history
    Annette Hess' prize-winning novel The German House is the story of a Polish translator at the 1963 Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. Caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power—as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation’s past. If everything your family told you was a lie, how far would you go to uncover the truth?
    A new exhibition of work by British abstract painter John Walker at Ikon in Birmingham includes new paintings
    A Very Scandi Scandal has just started in the Walter Presents slot on Channel 4. It's a Swedish comedy heist with two extremely unlikely bank robbers
    Shahidha Bari's guests are Dea Birkett, Kit Davis and Robert Hanks. The producer is Oliver Jones



    Main image: Rhashan Stone & Nicola Hughes in Fairview (c) Marc Brenner

  • The Nightingale is a film set in Tasmania in the brutal days of convict settlers and soldiers. A young wife faces violence as she tries to track down a man who has violated her family
    The National Theatre's adaptation of Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend condenses the four wildly-successful novels into 2 three-hour plays at The Olivier.
    The creator of Jack Reacher - Lee Child- has written a short book about The Hero. It's the first of two publications in the new Times Literary Supplement imprint - the other reproduces Virginia Woolf's reviews from the TLS.
    Troy: myth and reality is the latest big exhibition at London's British Museum. trying to work out where legends end history begins in these classical tales
    Tim Minchin co-wrote and stars in a new roadtrip-based TV comedy series Upright which has just begun on Sky TV. In it he has to transport an old piano across Australia, accompanied by a sassy grumpy young female companion. Is it funny? Is it worth watching?
    Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Deborah Moggach, Tom Shakespeare and Briony Hanson. The producer is Oliver Jones.

    Podcast extra recommendations:

    Tom Sh: Independence Square by AD Miller
    Deborah: Netherlandish Proverbs explained video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tboRw6CPXjI
    Briony: Hanna Gadsby's Douglas (and Nanette)
    Tom S: The End of the F***ing World on All 4 and Les Indes Galantes https://youtu.be/Q4jy2wrjESQ and Jo Jo Rabbit film

  • Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen has been an enormous success and has now transferred to London's West End. It's the story of a socially awkward young man who accidentally becomes a heroFeast & Fast: The art of food in Europe, 1500 – 1800 is the latest exhibition at The Fitzwilliam in CambridgeGreener Grass is a peculiar take on the American suburban comedyBritish Nigerian author Irenosen Okojie's collection of short stories; NudibranchAmerican documentary series maker Ken Burns has turned his attention to Country music for his latest series now airing on BBC4Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Deborah Bull, Susie Boyt and Louisa Uchum Egbunike. The producer is Oliver JonesPhoto by Matthew MurphySusie: Wednesday Afternoon matinees at Regent Street Cinema and the Joan Crawford film Queen BeeDeborah: Ballet Black on tour and Inspire The Mind blogLouisa: Chinua Achebe- There was a Country and Chinelo Okparanta - Under the Udala TreesTom: The Pallisers on Channel 4 and Lil Nas X - Old Town Road

  • The Gangster The Cop The Devil is an award-winning Korean action thriller about an unlikely alliance between a maverick police detective and a ruthless mobster who have to work together to catch a serial killer
    Touching the Void began life as a book by Joe Simpson, about a climbing accident which nearly killed him. It has since been turned into a film and now a stage play. How can you show vertiginous dangers and a lot of internal thought processes in the theatre?
    Sri Lankan writer Romesh Gunesekera was born in Ceylon - as it was known then - and his coming of age novel "Suncatcher" is set in his native country in 1964, as the struggle for independence began.
    Gold Digger is a Sunday night series just started on BBC1. When their 60 year old mum meets and moves in with a much younger man, Julia's children decide they don't like it and start to try and drive them apart
    George IV : Art and Spectacle has just opened at The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace. He was arguably the most magnificent of British monarchs and formed an unrivalled collection of art, much of which remains in the Royal Collection

    Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Charlotte Mullins, Lynn Shepherd and Jim White. The producer is Oliver Jones

    Podcast Extra recommendations:
    Lynn - Leonardo Da Vinci at London's National Gallery
    Charlotte - Kathe Kollwitz at British Museum and Elizabeth Peyton at London's National Portrait Gallery
    Jim - Bruce Springsteen, Western Stars
    Tom - Giri Haji on BBC2

    Rembrandt van Rijn, The Shipbuilder and his Wife: Jan Rijcksen and his Wife, Griet Jans, 1633
    Image credit: Royal Collection Trust / (c) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019

  • The Report is a docu-drama starring Adam Driver telling the story of Senate staffer Daniel Jones and the Senate Intelligence Committee as they investigate the CIA's use of torture following the September 11 attacks.
    Shook is a debut play at The Southwark Playhouse which won the Papatango New Writing Prize. How will our reviewers receive this brand new work at a fringe theatre by an unknown writer?
    The Topeka School by Ben Lerner is the third part of his trilogy featuring a central character who bears a decided resemblance to Lerner himself. Is this a State of America novel or self-indulgent , if brilliant, writing?
    A new exhibition at Somerset House: 24/7 looks at artistic responses to the always-on culture that envelopes us all nowadays
    Self portrait as time, 2016: https://vimeo.com/170398999
    Order of Magnitude: https://vimeo.com/333795857
    The Morning Show is Apple TV+'s big marquee show designed to attract voewers and subscribers to the new streaming service. Starring Jennifer Aniston and Reece Witherspoon it deals with the #metoo movement set in a TV newsroom
    Tom's guests are Maria Delgado, Kevin Jackson and Louise Doughty. The producer is Oliver Jones



    Podcast Extra Recommendations:
    Maria - The Chambermaid film
    Kevin - Susan Sontag At The Same Time
    Louise - Wasafiri magazine
    Tom - Julian Barnes' The Man In The Red Coat