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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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Tom Sutcliffe

Lisa Appignanesi

Rowan Pelling

Elizabeth Day

Oliver Jones

Saturday Review: Motown the Musical, Anomalisa, Giorgione, Eileen, Art of Scandinavia

Motown the Musical, Anomalisa, Giorgione, Eileen, Art of Scandinavia

12/03/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Motown the Musical, Anomalisa, Giorgione, Eileen, Art of Scandinavia

Including a look at Motown the Musical, which has come to the London stage.

The week's cultural highlights, including Motown the Musical coming to the London stage, Charlie Kaufman's film Anomalisa and Giorgione at the Royal Academy.

Motown, The Musical - with one of the best pop songbooks to draw on; how could this stage show fail? 
Charlie Kaufman's latest film is a stop-motion tale of loneliness, isolation and the possibility of redemptive love: Anomalisa
In The Age of Giorgione at London's Royal Academy, examines the development of The Venetian Renaissance, through works by Giorgione and his contemporaries such as Titian and Durer 
The central character of Ottessa Moshfegh's novel Eileen is a lonely self-loathing secretary at a boy's prison, looking after her alcoholic father. And then along comes hope...
Art of Scandinavia on BBC4: Andrew Graham Dixon looks at the art of Denmark, Norway and Sweden 
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Lisa Appignanesi, Rowan Pelling and Elizabeth Day. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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