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Sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events, with Tom Sutcliffe and guests

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Saturday Review: Submission; Hangmen; The World Goes Pop; You, Me and the Apocalypse; Tangerines

Submission; Hangmen; The World Goes Pop; You, Me and the Apocalypse; Tangerines

19/09/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Submission; Hangmen; The World Goes Pop; You, Me and the Apocalypse; Tangerines

Submission, Hangmen, The World Goes Pop, You, Me and the Apocalypse, Tangerines.

Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel Submission set in 2022 in France, Martin McDonagh's Hangmen, Oscar-nominated Tangerines, The World Goes Pop, and You, Me and the Apocalypse.

Michel Houellebecq's controversial sixth novel Submission is set in 2022 and depicts France ruled by sharia law under an Islamic president who has the stated aim of converting the whole of Europe to Islam. Part satire, part science fiction, does Hoeullebecq remain the "enfant terrible" of contemporary French literature?

Oscar and Golden Globe nominated film "Tangerines" is a beautifully eloquent statement for peace and the futility of bloodshed over racial and ethnic division. Set in the 1992 it features two tangerine growing Estonian farmers caught up in the conflict between Georgia and Abkhazian separatists. It is directed by award winning Georgian film maker Zaza Urushadze

The Ey Exhibition: The World Goes Pop at the Tate Modern shows how 60's and 70's pop art extended beyond America and Britain and dealt with more issues than consumerism, issues which include social imbalances, censorship, sexual liberation, war and civil rights. 

Rob Lowe and Pauline Quirke star in a new Sky 1 comedy drama "You, Me and The Apocalypse," where the characters are forced to confront imminent extinction from an 8 mile wide comet hurtling towards earth. What would you do if you were told there were only 34 days before oblivion?

And Martin McDonagh's first UK play in ten years, Hangmen, receives its World Premiere at the Royal Court in London, and tells the fictional story of a rival to the well known hangman Albert Pierrepoint. How does Britain's second best-known executioner respond to the news that the British government is abolishing capital punishment?

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