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Matisse; Locke; Val McDermid

Duration: 30 minutes

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

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John Wilson discusses Tate Modern's Matisse: The Cut-Outs with Matisse biographer Hilary Spurling and curator Nicholas Cullinan. Also in the programme: Val McDermid is renowned as a crime-writer, but Jane Austen isn't - so what attracted Val to the idea of updating Northanger Abbey?

Plus reviews of the film Locke, starring Tom Hardy - and of two new Broadway musicals: Woody Allen's stage version of his film Bullets Over Broadway, and a new show about Billie Holiday, Lady Day.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Rebecca Nicholson. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Hilary Spurling
Interviewed Guest:
Nicholas Cullinan
Interviewed Guest:
Tim Robey
Interviewed Guest:
Val McDermid
Interviewed Guest:
Matt Wolf

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