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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

Tom Sutcliffe

John Mullan

Laline Pau

Tiffany Jenkins

Oliver Jones

Saturday Review: Life of Galileo, Colossal, Jimmy McGovern, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Thresholds at Somerset House

Life of Galileo, Colossal, Jimmy McGovern, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Threshold at Somerset House

20/05/2017

Life of Galileo, Colossal, Jimmy McGovern, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Thresholds at Somerset House

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Life of Galileo, Colossal, Jimmy McGovern, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Thresholds at Somerset House

Life of Galileo, Colossal, Jimmy McGovern, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Somerset House exhibition.

Life of Galileo at The Young Vic, monster science fiction black comedy Colossal, Jimmy McGovern's Broken, Lucy Hughes-Hallett's Peculiar Ground, Somerset House's Thresholds.

Joe Wright directs Brecht's Life of Galileo at The Young Vic, reimagining it with a Chemical Brothers rave soundtrack... 
In science fiction black comedy Colossal, Anne Hathaway plays a woman coping with alcoholism whose alter ego just happens to be a giant space monster. It's a kaiju movie
Jimmy McGovern's newest TV offering is Broken which stars Sean Bean as an inner city priest coping with escalating personal and parish pressures. 
Lucy Hughes-Hallett's novel Peculiar Ground deals with the construction and changing nature of the walls of a country estate across the centuries.
Thresholds is an exhibition by Mat Collishaw at Somerset House, re-staging one of the earliest exhibitions of photography in 1839, when William Henry Fox Talbot showed his first prints. 

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are John Mullan, Laline Paull and Tiffany Jenkins. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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