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Supersonic, Mel Gibson in Blood Father, Beyond Caravaggio, Karl Jenkins

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Supersonic is a new documentary charting the success of Oasis, the Manchester band with 8 number one albums and estimated sales of over 70 million. John talks to director Mat Whitecross - who also directed Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, the biopic of Ian Dury - about charting brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher's rapid rise to stardom.

In Mel Gibson's new film Blood Father, the actor is cast as a recovering alcoholic with anger issues, capitalising on the actor's off-screen controversies over the past decade. Antonia Quirke reviews.

Beyond Caravaggio at the National Gallery, which focuses on the work of the Italian painter and his influence on the art of his contemporaries and followers, is reviewed by Waldemar Januszczak.

Sir Karl Jenkins discusses his new choral work Cantata Memoria - For the Children, in commemoration of those killed in the Aberfan disaster 50 years ago, which has its world premiere in Cardiff tomorrow.

Presenter John Wilson
Producer Jerome Weatherald. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Antonia Quirke
Interviewed Guest:
Waldemar Januszczak
Interviewed Guest:
Mat Whitecross
Interviewed Guest:
Karl Jenkins

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