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The Review Show

Christmas shows, the magic of Artes Mundi and generational poems

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio Wales FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Wales Extra

Gary Raymond and his guests cast a critical eye on what's going on in the Welsh arts scene. This week he is joined by academic Dr Carrie Smith and novelist David Llewellyn. The panel take a grown-up perspective on the Sherman Theatre's Christmas special for 7-11-year-olds, Alice in Wonderland. And they explore S4C's new drama Morfydd, a biopic of composer Morfydd Llwyn Owen focusing on her troubled relationship with her husband, Ernest Jones, the psychoanalyst who was a friend and contemporary of Sigmund Freud.
Artes Mundi 8, the international visual arts exhibition on at the National Museum in Cardiff is also discussed by Gary and his guests critics, as is prize-winning poet Jonathan Edwards' new collection Gen.
And Gary signs off with a festive flourish asking his guests to reveal their cultural Christmas guilty pleasures. Show less

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