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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

Helen Lewis

Dominic Sandbrook

Kit Davis

Oliver Jones

Saturday Review: Alexander McQueen, Suite Francaise, X+Y, Antigone, Tom McCarthy

Alexander McQueen, Suite Française, X+Y, Antigone, Tom McCarthy

14/03/2015

Alexander McQueen, Suite Francaise, X+Y, Antigone, Tom McCarthy

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Alexander McQueen, Suite Francaise, X+Y, Antigone, Tom McCarthy

Alexander McQueen exhibition, Suite Francaise, X+Y, Juliette Binoche and Satin Island.

The Alexander McQueen exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the films Suite Francaise and X+Y, Juliette Binoche in Antigone and Tom McCarthy's Satin Island.

When an exhibition of the fashion creations of Alexander McQueen opened in New York, visitors queued for up to 5 hours to get in. It's now at London's Victoria and Albert Museum; will it be such a crowd-puller
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemerovski's wartime novel (discovered more than six decades after her death) was a best seller. Can it repeat its success as a film?
X+Y is a film about a young maths prodigy who is on the autistic spectrum. It deals with his participation in the International Mathematical Olympiad and growing up emotionally
Juliette Binoche plays the lead in Antigone at London's Barbican Theatre. Directed by Ivo Von Hove, it's caused a lot of advance excitement.
Tom McCarthy's new novel Satin Island is a meditation on contemporary society that some reviewers have accused of ditching traditionally novelistic techniques like plot and character. Is it all the better for it?

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Helen Lewis, Dominic Sandbrook and Kit Davis. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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