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Saturday Review: Denzel Washington in Flight; Poliakoff's Dancing on the Edge

Denzel Washington in Flight; Poliakoff's Dancing on the Edge

02/02/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Denzel Washington in Flight; Poliakoff's Dancing on the Edge

Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington in Flight, and Poliakoff's Dancing on the Edge.

A review of the week's cultural highlights, including Denzel Washington's Oscar-nominated role in Flight, Stephen Poliakoff's Dancing on the Edge, and Light Show at the Hayward.

Denzel Washington has been Oscar-nominated for his role as an extraordinarily talented but addicted pilot in Robert Zemeckis' Flight. It features a terrifying crash sequence in which he flies a passenger plane upside down. Stephen Poliakoff returns with a major new drama on BBC2, Dancing On The Edge, following the rise of a charismatic black jazz band in the early 1930s. They win royal approval but still face rising prejudice. Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Goodman and Jacqueline Bisset star. Port was an early play from the acclaimed playwright Simon Stephens, known for his recent stage adaptation of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Now it's been staged again at the National Theatre and is the story of one woman's attempts to find more to life than her home town of Stockport seems to offer. Lucy Ellmann's latest novel "Mimi" is a witty roller-coaster ride with a hero whose provocative girlfriend leads him to a revolution in his thinking about women. And Light Show at the Hayward Gallery in London is a striking spectacle of colour, perception and technology - it "monkeys with your eyeballs" said one critic. Joining Tom Sutcliffe to review are the novelist Naomi Alderman, writer and broadcaster Sarfraz Manzoor and the actor Kerry Shale. Producer: Sarah Johnson.

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