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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

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Tom Sutcliffe

Stephanie Merritt

Dea Birkett

Sarfraz Manzoor

Oliver Jones

Saturday Review: Electra, Gone Girl, The Code, Howard Jacobson, Gothic Imagination

Electra, Gone Girl, The Code, Howard Jacobson, Gothic Imagination

04/10/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Electra, Gone Girl, The Code, Howard Jacobson, Gothic Imagination

Tom Sutcliffe chairs sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events.

Kristin Scott Thomas in Electra at the Old Vic, David Fincher's film Gone Girl, Howard Jacobson's Booker-nominated J, Gothic Imagination at British Library, and BBC4's The Code.

Kristin Scott Thomas plays the title role in Electra at The Old Vic. It's a millennia old play in a modern translation by Frank McGuinness and directed by Ian Rickson. 

David Fincher's film version of Gillian Flynn's best seller Gone Girl stars Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Howard Jacobson's Booker-nominated novel J imagines a dystopian world where a Holocaust-type event might happen again. 

Gothic Imagination at The British Library explores 250 years of a public predilection for horror and terror. 

BBC4's new Australian drama The Code deals with a corrupt government dealing ruthlessly with cyber skulduggery.

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Stephanie Merritt, Dea Birkett and Sarfraz Manzoor. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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