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

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John Mullan

Michael Arditti

Aminatta Forna

Saturday Review: Pinter's The Hothouse and The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Pinter's The Hothouse and The Reluctant Fundamentalist

11/05/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Pinter's The Hothouse and The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Pinter's The Hothouse and Mira Nair's film The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

John Simm and Simon Russell Beale in Harold Pinter's The Hothouse and Mira Nair's film The Reluctant Fundamentalist, based on Mohsin Hamid's bestseller.

John Simm and Simon Russell Beale star in a new production of Harold Pinter's The Hothouse at the Trafalgar Studios in London. When Pinter first wrote the play in the fifties, he put it in a drawer and pronounced it useless. Was he wrong?

Mira Nair's film The Reluctant Fundamentalist, based on Mohsin Hamid's Booker-nominated novel, stars Riz Ahmed as Changez, who finds his loyalty questioned and torn post 9/11.

Terry Eagleton is one of the best-known literary theorists in the world. His new book is How to Read Literature. Will it enhance the reading experience?

Mud, written by Jeff Nichols and starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at last year's Cannes film festival. It's a coming-of-age movie set on the banks of the Mississippi.

And The Fall, starring Gillian Anderson, is a tense search for a serial killer set in Belfast, beginning on BBC2 next week.

Joining Tom Sutcliffe are Professor John Mullan and the writers Michael Arditti and Aminatta Forna.

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