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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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Kate Mossman

Patrick Gale

Susan Jeffreys

Saturday Review: Hamlet, Paul Strand, Hot Milk, Court, Undercover

Hamlet, Paul Strand, Hot Milk, Court, Undercover

26/03/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Hamlet, Paul Strand, Hot Milk, Court, Undercover

Hamlet, Paul Strand, Hot Milk, Court, Undercover.

Hamlet at Stratford's RSC, starring Paapa Essiedu; Hot Milk by Deborah Levy Court, directed by Chaitanya Tamhane; Undercover on BBC One; and the Paul Strand exhibition at the V&A.

Paapa Essiedu is the first black actor to play Hamlet for the RSC in a new production opening in Stratford directed by Simon Godwin.
Booker short listed writer Deborah Levy explores the complex emotional dynamics of the mother / daughter relationship in her new novel Hot Milk.
Court is Mumbai born Chaitanya Tamhane's feature film debut - an Indian courtroom drama film which explores the limitations of Indian legal system through the trial of an elderly folk singer at a Sessions Court in Mumbai.
Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century at the V&A in London shows how the pioneering American photographer defined the way in which fine art and documentary photography is understood and practised today in the first major retrospective of his work for 40 years.
And barrister turned writer Peter Moffat's new political thriller Undercover on BBC One, stars Sophie Okonedo as Maya, who is about to be appointed as the first black Director of Public Prosecutions. Adrian Lester plays her husband Nick, an under cover police officer with a complex past.
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Arts Editor at the New Statesman, Kate Mossman, novelist Patrick Gale and writer Susan Jeffreys.

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