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Presenter Tom Sutcliffe and guests offer sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events

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Rosie Boycott

Melissa Harrison

Ryan Gilbey

Oliver Jones

Saturday Review: Glenda Jackson as King Lear, The Innocents, Linda Grant, Elton John's photographs in Radical Eye, Close to the Enemy

Glenda Jackson as King Lear, The Innocents, Linda Grant, Elton John's photographs in Radical Eye, Close to the Enemy

12/11/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Glenda Jackson as King Lear, The Innocents, Linda Grant, Elton John's photographs in Radical Eye, Close to the Enemy

King Lear, The Innocents, Linda Grant, Elton John's Radical Eye, Close to the Enemy.

Glenda Jackson plays King Lear, French/Polish film The Innocents, Linda Grant's The Dark Circle, Elton John's photographs at Tate Modern, Poliakoff's Close to the Enemy on BBC TV.

Glenda Jackson returns to the stage after 25 years as an MP to play the title role in King Lear at London's Old Vic Theatre. Is she a frail 80 year old or a commanding presence?
French/Polish film The Innocents is based on a true story about a convent in post-war Poland where the nuns were raped by Soviet soldiers.
Linda Grant's latest novel The Dark Circle tells the story of Lenny and Miriam, two east-enders convalescing in a TB sanatorium in 1940s Kent
The Radical Eye, Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection is the new exhibition at London's Tate Modern. Pinner's favourite son has been purchasing work by the world's leading photographers for more than 2 decades and created one of the leading private collections in the world. 
Stephen Poliakoff's Close to the Enemy on BBC TV is set in London immediately after WWII as a special British Army unit tries to turn former Nazi scientists to work for 'us' now

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Rosie Boycott, Melissa Harrison and Ryan Gilbey. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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