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Saturday Review: V&A Cast Court, City of Angels, Big Eyes, Kureishi/Murakami/AN Wilson, Mapp and Lucia

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20/12/2014

V&A Cast Court, City of Angels, Big Eyes, Kureishi/Murakami/AN Wilson, Mapp and Lucia

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, V&A Cast Court, City of Angels, Big Eyes, Kureishi/Murakami/AN Wilson, Mapp and Lucia

V&A Cast Court, Big Eyes, City of Angels, Kureishi/Murakami/AN Wilson, Mapp and Lucia.

Tom Sutcliffe reviews Weston Cast Court at the V&A Museum, City of Angels at the Donmar, Tim Burton's Big Eyes, Small Books: extremely short fiction, and Mapp and Lucia on BBC TV.

London's V+A Museum has just reopened the Weston Cast Court, which houses life-size plaster casts of statuary and artefacts from around Europe. It includes the museum's largest items, can it draw their largest crowds?
Larry Gelbart's City of Angels is revived at London's Donmar Warehouse. A musical about the golden age of Hollywood, it garnered awards galore 25 years ago in its original run, will this production be a winner?
Tim Burton's new film Big Eyes is about 1960s housewife Margaret Keane whose paintings of waifs with enormous dark eyes were wildly commercially successful, but her husband claimed all the glory until she decided to make a break for fame in her own right.
Small Books: We look at 3 works of extremely short fiction. Hanif Kureishi, Haruki Murakami and AN Wilson all have stories to tell, that they feel are best-suited to new diminutive formats.
The BBC has remade EF Benson's Mapp and Lucia in sumptuous style; is it a new classic?

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