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Catherine O'Flynn

Liz Jensen

Sarfraz Manzoor

Oliver Jones

Saturday Review: Barbershop Chronicles, Slack Bay, Amanda Craig, Sidney Nolan, GLOW

Barbershop Chronicles, Slack Bay, Amanda Craig, Sidney Nolan, GLOW

17/06/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Barbershop Chronicles, Slack Bay, Amanda Craig, Sidney Nolan, GLOW

Barbershop Chronicles, Slack Bay, Amanda Craig, Sidney Nolan centenary, GLOW.

Inua Ellam's Barbershop Chronicles at London's National Theatre, French comedy film Slack Bay, Amanda Craig's novel The Lie Of the Land, Sidney Nolan centenary, GLOW on Netflix.

Inua Ellam's play Barbershop Chronicles has opened at London's National Theatre. It's about the intimate and almost-sacred masculine world of black barber shops around the world. 
French film Slack Bay is a comedy about a series of mysterious seaside murders. Starring Juliette Binoche, it mixes professional actors with complete novices and slapstick comedy with cannibalism and gender-fluid relationships
Amanda Craig's latest novel The Lie Of the Land tells the story of a London couple who move to the country under straitened circumstances and uncover a grisly murder in their new home 
Birmingham's Ikon Gallery is staging an exhibition of a series of Sidney Nolan portraits, as part of the commemoration marking the centenary of his birth. He was an Australian who moved to the UK at the age of 32 but whose work never reflected his new home. 
GLOW is a new Netflix series from the makers of Orange Is The New Black, set in the world of women's TV wrestling in the 1980s. It's all big hair, power ballads, coke snorting and grappling.

Emma Dabiri's guests are Catherine O'Flynn, Liz Jensen and Sarfraz Manzoor. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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