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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

Liz Jensen

Crystal Mahey-Morgan

Nicholas Rankin

Oliver Jones

Saturday Review: Hail Caesar, Don Quixote, Ta Nehisi Coates, Botticelli, Thirteen

Hail Caesar, Don Quixote, Ta Nehisi Coates, Botticelli, Doctor Thorne

05/03/2016

Hail Caesar, Don Quixote, Ta Nehisi Coates, Botticelli, Thirteen

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Hail Caesar, Don Quixote, Ta Nehisi Coates, Botticelli, Thirteen

Including a look at the Coen brothers' Hail Caesar and RSC's Don Quixote in Stratford.

Reviews of the Coen brothers' Hail Caesar, RSC's Don Quixote in Stratford, Ta Nehisi Coates's The Beautiful Struggle, Botticelli Reimagined at the V&A, and BBC Three drama Thirteen.

Hail Caesar is the Coen Brothers' newest film - recalling the Golden Age of Hollywood: the scandal, the vice and the Studios' men who handled the catastrophes.
The RSC has adapted Cervantes' masterpiece Don Quixote in a new production in Stratford. Can they do justice to a book, more than 4 centuries old, which is often hailed as the The Greatest Work Of The Spanish Language?
Ta Nehisi Coates writes about the experience of young black America. His work is admired by the likes of Barack Obama and he's been described as The Young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation. We look at his latest work: The Beautiful Struggle
Botticelli Reimagined at The V+A examines the enduring impact of the Fifteenth century Florentine genius,
BBC Three's first online only drama is Thirteen, a kidnap thriller about a girl who escapes her captor 13 years after being abducted
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Liz Jensen, Crystal Mahey Morgan and Nicholas Rankin. The producer is Oliver Jones.

Main Image: Ivy Moxam (played by Jodie Comer), from Thirteen, BBC Three. Credit: BBC/Todd Anthony.

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