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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

Tom Sutcliffe

Mark Ravenhill

Liz Jensen

Kamila Shamsie

Oliver Jones

Saturday Review: The Children Act, Little Revolution, Watermark, Secrets, Bernd and Hilla Becher

The Children Act, Little Revolution, Watermark, Secrets, Bernd and Hilla Becher

06/09/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, The Children Act, Little Revolution, Watermark, Secrets, Bernd and Hilla Becher

Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss of the week's cultural events, including The Children Act

Ian McEwan's novel The Children Act, Alecky Blythe's play Little Revolution using verbatim interviews, plus docu-film Watermark, drama series Secrets, and Bernd and Hilla Becher.

Ian McEwan's new novel The Children Act deals with a young man who is suffering from leukaemia and the conflict between his parent's wishes and the authority of the State in the form of a high court judge. 

Little Revolution is a play by Alecky Blythe concerning the London riots of 2011 using a script drawn from verbatim interviews 

Watermark is a film by photographer Edward Burtynsky about the world's most precious resource: H2O. There's a finite amount and it's getting more and more difficult to protect and access.

Secrets, a new mini drama series on BBC1 begins with a play starring Olivia Colman and Alison Steadman about a mother who discovers she's dying of cancer and her relationship with her daughter. 

Bernd and Hilla Becher were a German husband and wife photographic duo who specialised in impartial pictures of industrial structures - conventionally unpretty but given a formalist beauty 

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Mark Ravenhill, Liz Jensen and Kamila Shamsie. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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