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Saturday Review: Atomic Blonde, A Ghost Story, Jonathan Dee, This Is Human, Quacks

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12/08/2017

Atomic Blonde, A Ghost Story, Jonathan Dee, This Is Human, Quacks

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Atomic Blonde, A Ghost Story, Jonathan Dee, This Is Human, Quacks

Atomic Blonde, A Ghost Story, Jonathan Dee, Project X: This Is Human and Quacks on BBC2.

Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde, Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara in A Ghost Story, Jonathan Dee's novel The Locals, Project X: This is Human and period medical comedy Quacks.

Charlize Theron stars as an MI6 spy in Berlin just before the fall of the wall. In Atomic Blonde she shows that she's quite capable of doing anything a male spy could do; with lots of seducing, fighting and killing
Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara play a married couple in A Ghost Story. After he is killed, he haunts his old locations wearing a white bed sheet with eye holes cut out. 
Jonathan Dee's novel The Locals is the follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize nominated The Privileges. A New York hedge fund manager moves into a small rural community and becomes mayor
Project X: This Is Human is a new art exhibition at HOME in Manchester
The BBC launches a period medical comedy Quacks on BBC2. Rory Kinnear, Matthew Baynton and Tom Basden play Victorian doctors and medical pioneers.

Shahidha Bari's guests are Abigail Morris, Michael Arditti and Gail Tolley. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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