BBC Radio 4 LW

Saturday Review Podcast bigger text

Saturday Review

Magazines & Reviews

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events, with Tom Sutcliffe and guests

Presenter Tom Sutcliffe and guests offer sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events

Saturday Review: 26/11/2011

26/11/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, 26/11/2011

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural highlights.

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests, writers Louise Doughty and Dreda Say Mitchell and artistic director of the Royal Opera House Deborah Bull, review the week's cultural highlights.

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers Louise Doughty and Dreda Say Mitchell and creative director of the Royal Opera House Deborah Bull review the week's cultural highlights including Matilda The Musical.

Matilda The Musical is Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin's adaptation of Roald Dahl's much loved book. After a brief but very successful run in Stratford-upon-Avon at the end of last year, this RSC production has now opened at the Cambridge Theatre in London.

Jeff Nichols' film Take Shelter stars Michael Shannon as a man increasingly crippled by anxiety. As he struggles to protect his family against a threat that only he senses, he becomes more and more alienated from all those around him.

Deep Field is award-winning poet Philip Gross's new collection which focuses on his elderly father's aphasia and trying to communicate with him as he gradually loses all the words from the five languages that he spoke.

Electroboutique pop up at the Science Museum in London is an interactive exhibition by Russian artists Aristarkh Chernyshev and Alexei Shulgin.

Charlie Brooker's new Channel 4 series Black Mirror consists of three stand-alone dramas which cast a satirical eye on our relationship with the technology around us. The first - The National Anthem - stars Rory Kinnear as a prime minister faced with an unpalatable demand from a kidnapper.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod.

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Saturday Review

26/11/2011

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC Radio 4 LW

About BBC Radio 4