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Saturday Review: Owen Sheers, Ninagawa's Hamlet, Home in Manchester, The New Girlfriend, Armada on BBC One

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23/05/2015

Owen Sheers, Ninagawa's Hamlet, Home in Manchester, The New Girlfriend, Armada on BBC One

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Owen Sheers, Ninagawa's Hamlet, Home in Manchester, The New Girlfriend, Armada on BBC One

Featuring Owen Sheers's novel I Saw a Man, and Ninagawa's Japanese Hamlet.

Featuring Owen Sheers's novel I Saw a Man, Ninagawa's Japanese Hamlet, and the opening of a new arts centre called Home in Manchester.

Owen Sheers' novel I Saw A Man deals with loss, grief, guilt and attempted redemption
Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa has directed Hamlet 8 times. His latest production is playing at The Barbican in London - how well does this 17th Century English play transfer to a setting in 19th Century Japan? 
Manchester has a brand new arts centre: Home. What will it add to to Manchester's vibrant arts scene?
Francois Ozon's film The New Girlfriend is based on a Ruth Rendell novel. How does the cross-dressing of the main character - a young widower - affect his friends, male and female?
Dan Snow presents Armada, 12 Days To Save England on BBC2; taking a fresh modern look at the great Elizabethan sea battle - the reasons as well as the results.

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