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Saturday Review: Collateral, Loveless, Gundog, Catapult, T-Shirt: Cult-Culture-Subversion

Collateral, Loveless, Gundog, Catapult, T-Shirt: Cult-Culture-Subversion

10/02/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Collateral, Loveless, Gundog, Catapult, T-Shirt: Cult-Culture-Subversion

David Hare's Collateral, Loveless, Gundog, Catapult, T-Shirt: Cult-Culture-Subversion.

David Hare's Collateral, a BBC and Netflix co-production starring Carey Mulligan and Billie Piper and Russian director Andrey Zyagintsev's Loveless, which probes modern Russia.

David Hare's first episodic television drama Collateral is a BBC and Netflix co production starring Carey Mulligan, John Simm, and Billie Piper. Set in contemporary London it explores the challenges posed by mass migration as a result of war, poverty and persecution. Hare references ground breaking television such as Cathy Come Home, The Boys From The Blackstuff and A Very British Coup as inspiration: will Collateral prove as innovative and as game changing?

Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes and Best Film at the London Film Festival, Andrey Zvyagintsev's Loveless tells the story of a divorcing couple whose 12 year old son goes missing after an argument. Drawing parallels with Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From a Marriage, Loveless is a probing look at the state of modern Russian society.

Gundog marks the Royal Court debut of writer Simon Longman and is directed by Vicky Featherstone, recently named the most influential person working in British theatre by The Stage newspaper. Gundog is set on a remote farm where sisters Becky and Anna are holding it together after the death of their mother when a stranger enters their midst.

Emily Fridlund's debut novel History of Wolves was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2017. Born in Minnesota, her new collection of short stories Catapult is a wry look at the trials and tribulations of American family life.

T-shirt: Cult - Culture - Subversion at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London explores the T-shirt in the 20th Century, charting the history, culture and subversion of the most affordable and popular item of clothing on the planet. From men's underclothes to symbol of rock and roll rebellion, through punk and politics to luxury fashion item, T-shirts broadcast who we are and who we want to be.

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