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Saturday Review: Death of a Salesman, While We're Young, Alfred Hitchcock, Frames in Focus, Sex and the Church

Death of a Salesman, While We're Young, Alfred Hitchcock, Frames in Focus, Sex and the Church

04/04/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Death of a Salesman, While We're Young, Alfred Hitchcock, Frames in Focus, Sex and the Church

The RSC production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, plus While We're Young.

RSC production of Miller's Death of a Salesman, Peter Ackroyd's Alfred Hitchcock, While We're Young, Frames in Focus at the National Gallery and BBC Two series Sex and the Church.

Arthur Miller's Pullitzer prize winning 1949 play, Death of a Salesman, set in Brooklyn in New York, is one of the greatest American tragedies ever written. In a production to celebrate the centenary of Miller's birth at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford on Avon, Artistic Director Greg Doran directs Anthony Sher as Willy Loman, Harriet Walter as his wife Linda and Alex Hassel as their son Biff. How well does this production portray the darkness that lies at the heart of the American dream?
Oscar nominated for The Squid and the Whale, "While We're Young" is Noah Baumbach's 8th feature film, and his second collaboration with star Ben Stiller. A comedy about the generational divide in a technologically driven age - what new insights does it provide on the perennial conflict between age and youth?
Award winning novelist, biographer and poet Peter Ackroyd's turns his attention to Alfred Hitchcock in a new biography which details the director's stormy, controlling relationships with his leading ladies, as well the painstaking way in which he mastered his cinematic craft manifest in such cinema classics as Notorious, Rear Window, Psycho and The Birds. What new light can the "Master of Biography" shed upon the "Master of Suspense?"
When you go to see an exhibition at the National Gallery in London you expect to see paintings. However in Frames in Focus: Sansovino Frames it is the frames themselves that are the stars of the show - one of the first times ever a UK gallery has created an exhibition (almost) purely from frames alone. What does this exhibition reveal about the art of the picture frame?
And a new BBC 2 television series, Sex and The Church, explores the complex question of the church's attitude towards sex from the birth of Jesus to the present day, presented by Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch.

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