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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

Deborah Bull

Neil Brand

Misha Glenny

Oliver Jones

Saturday Review: 13/12/2014

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13/12/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, 13/12/2014

With Treasure Island, Electricity, Black Mirror on TV, The Hot Country and dolls' houses.

With Treasure Island at the Olivier, Electricity starring Agyness Deyn, Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, Robert Olen Butler's book The Hot Country and a V&A dolls' house exhibition.

Treasure Island is The National Theatre's seasonal offering at The Olivier, full of pirates, parrots and seaspray. How does it play to the various audiences who come to the theatre at Christmas time?
Electricity is a film starring model turned actress Agyness Deyn whose character deals with her epilepsy as she tries to find a community to be a part of. 
Charlie Brooker is back with a one-off feature-length Christmas special edition of Black Mirror on Channel 4. It's a worrying look at a future world that may be closer to our present world than we expect. It's guaranteed to inject some darkness into the joviality of Christmas
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Olen Butler's latest novel is The Hot Country; a historical thriller set in Mexico in 1914 with a hardbitten journalist as hero
The V+A has an exhibition of Dolls Houses - from 1670 to 2001. They're a world of wonder in miniature. How do they reflect the society of the children for whom they were made? 

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Deborah Bull, Neil Brand and Misha Glenny. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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