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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

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Emma Jane Unsworth

Kit Davis

Jim White

Oliver Jones

Saturday Review: Mudbound, Network, Javier Cercas, She's Got To Have It, North exhibition

Mudbound, Network, Javier Cercas, She's Got To Have It, North exhibition

18/11/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Mudbound, Network, Javier Cercas, She's Got To Have It, North exhibition

Mudbound, Network, Javier Cercas, She's Got To Have It (adapted for TV), North exhibition.

The week's cultural highlights. Mudbound, set in America's deep south; Network at The National; Javier Cercas's The Impostor; She's Got To Have It; and the North exhibition.

Mudbound, is a searing look at prejudice set in the Jim Crow deep south of the United States shortly after WW2
Network is a new production at The National Theatre in London. It's an adaptation of the 1976 Oscar-winning film about a TV anchorman who announces that he's "mad as hell and not going to take it anymore" which appalls then delights and ultimately infuriates his network bosses. It stars Bryan "Breaking Bad" Cranston as the newsreader who wigs out. 
Javier Cercas's novel The Impostor tells the extraordinary tale of a Spanish man who falsely claimed to have been a survivor of Mauthausen concentration camp. Can we trust that anything in the story he tells of his life is true?
She's Got To Have It was Spike Lee's 1986 breakout film which he has now adapted into a 10 part TV series for Netflix
North: fashioning Identity, is an exhibition at Somerset House exploring contemporary artistic and stylistic representations of the north of England. 

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Emma Jane Unsworth, Kit Davis and Jim White. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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