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American Psycho as theatre; Everything You Always Wanted to Know...; Mind Maps at the Science Museum

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Matt Smith (the almost-former Dr Who) takes his first post-timelord steps in a stage musical based on American Psycho, the quintessential yuppie novel. How will they deal with the rat?

The Mind Maps exhibition at the Science Museum in London explores how mental health problems and other psychological disorders have been treated over the past 250 years. It includes objects from the museum's medical collection, archive images and art works, but how hard is it to show how the mind (rather than the brain) works?

A two-part BBC TV drama tells the story of the The Great Train Robbery of 1963. Starring Jim Broadbent as the policeman who made it his mission to track them down; part one tells the story of the robber's planning and execution of the job, and part two follows the police investigation. Is it possible to dramatise a crime without glamorising the criminals?

In the film The Innocents a young governess believes her two wards have become possessed by evil spirits. When it was released in 1961 it was rated certificate X and failed at the box office. In the intervening half century it has been hailed as a horror classic and is now being re-released as a certificate 12. Will a 50 year old black and white horror film appeal to a modern audience?

'Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Acting But Were Afraid To Ask, Dear' is a barbed guide to theatre written by an anonymous theatre reviewer known simply as West End Producer. Chapters include The Correct Way To Bow At The Curtain Call and Getting Into Drama School (learning how to sit in a circle).

Tom Sutcliffe's guests this week are Abigail Morris, James Runcie and Cahal Dallat.

Producer: Oliver Jones. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Abigail Morris
Interviewed Guest:
James Runcie
Interviewed Guest:
Cahal Dallat
Producer:
Oliver Jones

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