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Sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events, with Tom Sutcliffe and guests

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Damian Barr

Maria Delgado

Gillian Slovo

Oliver Jones

Saturday Review: Angels In America, The Ferryman, Harmonium, Laurent Binet, Eric Gill

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06/05/2017

Angels In America, The Ferryman, Harmonium, Laurent Binet, Eric Gill

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Angels In America, The Ferryman, Harmonium, Laurent Binet, Eric Gill

Angels In America, Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman, Harmonium, Laurent Binet, Eric Gill.

Angels In America at London's National Theatre, Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman, Japanese film Harmonium, Laurent Binet's The Seventh Function of Language, Eric Gill in Ditchling.

A revival of Tony Kushner's epic play about the US AIDS epidemic Angels In America is being staged at London's National Theatre. It's nearly 8 hours long (in two parts); is it still pertinent and is it worth sitting through?
Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem was an enormous theatrical success and his latest The Ferryman has just opened at London's Royal Court Theatre. Set during The Troubles in Northern Ireland it deals with one family's unavoidable and unwilling involvement
The family at the heart of Japanese film Harmonium seem to have a functioning but unemotional stability. And then a stranger comes into their lives and slowly things change. For the better or for the worse?
Laurent Binet's new novel The Seventh Function of Language is about the death (or was it an assassination?!) of Roland Barthes - the death of the author of "The Death Of The Author" 
Eric Gill was one of the finest sculptors of the 20th Century. And also a paedophile. A new exhibition in his home village of Ditchling, tries to see if it's possible to appreciate his art as entirely separate from his biography

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Damian Barr, Maria Delgado and Gillian Slovo. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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