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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

Jessica Burton

John Mullan

Sarah Crompton

Oliver Jones

Saturday Review: Thoroughbreds, The Way of the World, Richard Powers, City in the City, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Thoroughbreds, The Way of the World, Richard Power, City in the City, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

07/04/2018

Thoroughbreds, The Way of the World, Richard Powers, City in the City, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Thoroughbreds, The Way of the World, Richard Powers, City in the City, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Thoroughbreds, The Way of the World, Richard Powers, City in the City, In My Shoes at YSP.

Black comedy Thoroughbreds, The Way of the World at The Donmar Warehouse, Richard Powers's The Overstory, BBC TV's The City in the City, In My Shoes at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Black comedy thriller film Thoroughbreds is about 2 American teenage girls who hatch a plot to kill one of their step-fathers. Is it easier to hire an assassin or do it themselves? And will emotions get in the way of such a potentially messy business?
Congreve's The Way Of The World at London's Donmar Warehouse is a restoration comedy. But how funny can one make a wildly convoluted 300 year old plot about inheritance funny for today's theatre goers?
Richard Powers' latest novel is The Overstory - about mankind's relationship with the arboreal world. Eight stories set around the USA over several centuries come together to make readers rethink their relationship with trees
BBC TV is broadcasting a 4 part adaptation of China Mieville's novel The City & The City. It's a complicated speculative fiction work involving two cities which occupy exactly the same space and time but are invisible to each other. Well sort of... See if our reviewers have made sense of the idea
The Arts Council Collection tours the UK bringing major works by established and emerging British artists to venues which might not otherwise have access to important contemporary art. The exhibition In My Shoes at Yorkshire Sculpture Park is the opening venue for a chance to see the newest collection additions.
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Jessica Burton, John Mullan and Sarah Crompton. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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