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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

Saturday Review: Doctor Faustus, The Image Book, Care, Hazards of Time Travel, Darren Almond

Doctor Faustus, The Image Book, Care, Hazards of Time Travel, Darren Almond

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Doctor Faustus, The Image Book, Care, Hazards of Time Travel, Darren Almond

Doctor Faustus, Godard's The Image Book, Care, Hazards of Time Travel and Darren Almond

Doctor Faustus at Shakespeare's Globe, starring Jocelyn Jee Esian, Godard's The Image Book, Jimmy McGovern's Care, Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates and Darren Almond.

Christopher Marlow's Doctor Faustus at Shakespeare's Globe in London stars Jocelyn Jee Esian as Faustus and Pauline McLynn as Mephistopheles and is directed by Paulette Randall.
Jean Luc Godard's The Image Book is described as an avant-garde horror movie, a vast mosaic of image and sound exploring the modern Arabic world.  It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.  Although it did not win the official prize, the jury awarded it the first "Special Palme d'Or" in the festival's history
Sheridan Smith, Alison Steadman and Sinead Keenan star in Care, a new 90-minute drama on BBC One,  by Jimmy McGovern, co-written with Gillian Juckes whose real life experiences of how the NHS responds to patients with dementia  formed the inspiration for the story.
Joyce Carol Oates’s Hazards of Time Travel is her 46th novel and its published alongside a reissue of her bestselling novel Blonde, a fictionalised account of Marilyn Munro’s life.  At 80 Oates is a five times Pullitzer prize finalist. Hazards of Time Travel is a dystopian narrative sets 20 years from now in a totalitarian North American States, or NAS where the punishment for speaking out is "deletion."
Darren Almond's new work includes Time Will Tell and 9 x 9 x 9 at White Cube Bermondsey and focuses on the idea of time and how it is articulated through the language of numbers.
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are David Benedict, Helen Lewis and Meg Rosoff. The producer is Hilary Dunn
Podcast Extra:
Helen Lewis's choice - Normal People by Sally Rooney
Meg Rosoff's choice - Fiddler On The Roof at the Menier Chocolate Factory
David Benedict's choice - Radio 3's Remembering World War 1: Vaughan WIlliams and Beyond including Cheryl Frances-Hoad's new work Last Man Standing

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