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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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Saturday Review: The Vote, The Crow Eaters, Girlhood, Brighton Festival, Grace and Frankie

The Vote, The Crow Eaters, Girlhood, Brighton Festival, Grace and Frankie

09/05/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, The Vote, The Crow Eaters, Girlhood, Brighton Festival, Grace and Frankie

Bapsi Sidhwa's The Crow Eaters and The Vote, an election comedy at Donmar Warehouse.

Bapsi Sidhwa's The Crow Eaters, French film Girlhood, avian art at the Brighton Festival, Grace and Frankie on Netflix and The Vote, an election comedy at Donmar Warehouse.

The Vote is a comedy set in a polling station on election night, performed live at the Donmar Warehouse and simultaneously broadcast on More4. Starring Mark Gatiss, Judi Dench, Catherine Tate and nearly 40 more actors, can it have a life after we announce our verdict?
Bapsi Sidhwa's novel The Crow Eaters is a classic of Pakistani writing; a darkly humorous tale of a family in Lahore in the early 1900s. fans include Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi and Fatima Bhutto. What will our panel make of it?
The French film Girlhood tells the story of the lives of a group of young black Parisiennes; a group notably underrepresented in French cinema. Does this film do something original with the idea?
We look at a couple of works at this year's Brighton Festival on an avian theme: Dawn Chorus, humans reproducing birdsong and Murmuration looking at birdwatching and spying
Grace and Frankie is a new comedy series starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as two septuagenarians who are surprised when their husbands announce that they're gay and intend to marry each other.

Image: Mark Gatiss as Steven Crosswell in The Vote, Donmar Warehouse
Photo Credit: Johan Persson.

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