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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

Saturday Review: One Night in Miami, The Mountaintop, Black Mirror, Ali Smith, Beyond Caravaggio

One Night in Miami, The Mountaintop, Black Mirror, Ali Smith, Beyond Caravaggio

15/10/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, One Night in Miami, The Mountaintop, Black Mirror, Ali Smith, Beyond Caravaggio

One Night In Miami, The Mountaintop, Black Mirror, Ali Smith, Beyond Caravaggio.

Two plays about black America: Kemp Powers' One Night In Miami and Katori Hall's The Mountaintop. Black Mirror on Netflix, Ali Smith's Autumn, National Gallery's Beyond Caravaggio.

We're looking at two plays about black America this week: Kemp Powers' One Night In Miami imagines a meeting in 1964 between boxer Cassius Clay, activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke & American Football star Jim Brown as they decide how they can each change the world. Katori Hall's The Mountaintop is set 4 year's later and imagines Rev Martin Luther King's last night alive, in a hotel room in Memphis
Charlie Brooker's distopian TV show Black Mirror was a huge success when it began on Channel 4. The new series has moved on to Netflix - a different scale of budget and a different audience. Can it have the same effect?
Ali Smith's Autumn is the first in a quartet of seasonal novels. It imagines a contemporary Britain struggling to deal with its identity
London's National Gallery's Beyond Caravaggio exhibition explores the influence of Caravaggio on the art of his contemporaries and followers.

Razia Iqbal's guests Emma Dabiri, Ekow Eshun and Hardeep Singh Kohli. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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