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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

Natalie Haynes

Arifa Akbar

Peter Kemp

Oliver Jones

Saturday Review: On Body And Soul, Our Town, Jennifer Egan, Basquiat, The Deuce

On Body And Soul, Our Town, Jennifer Egan, Basquiat

23/09/2017

On Body And Soul, Our Town, Jennifer Egan, Basquiat, The Deuce

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, On Body And Soul, Our Town, Jennifer Egan, Basquiat, The Deuce

On Body and Soul, Our Town, Jennifer Egan, Basquiat, The Deuce.

On Body and Soul, Berlin's Golden Bear winner for 2017, Our Town at Manchester's Royal Exchange, Jennifer Egan's Manhattan Beach, Basquiat at The Barbican, and HBO TV's The Deuce.

This year's Golden Bear winning film On Body And Soul is a peculiar love story between two social misfits who work at a Hungarian abattoir
A revival of Thornton Wilder's most-performed play Our Town at Manchester's Royal Exchange resets it to reflect the local audience
Jennifer Egan's follow up to her multi prize-winning A Visit From The Goon Squad is Manhattan Beach. Set in the docks of New York during wartime, Egan has described it as "a fairly straightforward, noirish thriller". Will our panel be more effulgent?
A major new exhibition of the work of the late street artist Jean-Michel Basquiat has opened at London's Barbican Centre; was he warmly or suffocatingly embraced by New York's hungry art scene in the 1980s? 
HBO TV's new series The Deuce begins on Sky Atlantic

And - if you listen to the podcast version of this programme, you can find out what the reviewers have been enjoying when they're not absorbing stuff for the Saturday Review 

Tom Sutclidffe's guests are Natalie Haynes, Arifa Akbar and Peter Kemp. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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