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Saturday Review

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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: Snowflake, Mowgli, Emiliano Monge, Rachel Maclean, Springsteen on Broadway

Snowflake, Mowgli, Emiliano Monge, Rachel Maclean, Springsteen on Broadway

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Snowflake, Mowgli, Emiliano Monge, Rachel Maclean, Springsteen on Broadway

Mike Bartlett's play Snowflake in Oxford, Mowgli on Netflix, Emiliano Monge's novel Among The Lost, Rachel Maclean show at London's National Gallery, Springsteen on Broadway CD

Mike Bartlett's play Snowflake is at The Old Fire Station in Oxford. It centres around a father who is awaiting the return of his daughter who walked out of his life 2 years before. Will she return? Why did she leave? Who is the young woman who arrives while he's waiting? It's a play for Christmas with warmth at its heart
Mowgli: Legend Of The Jungle is the latest version of The Jungle Book just released on Netflix. Directed by Andy Serkis and starring motion-capture animals with famous voice actors, what USP makes it different from the previous versions.
Prize winning Mexican  author Emiliano Monge's novel Among The Lost is a grim tale of 24 hours in the lives of 2 human traffickers in Latin America. How can an author breathe life into and make us care for two merciless criminals
Rachel Maclean's show at London's National Gallery is The Lion and The Unicorn a video work based around the Scottish Independence referendum of 2014.
If you are a fan of Bruce Springsteen, you will LOVE Springsteen on Broadway, a recording of his solo Broadway solo concert series which ran for 236 shows. If you're not, is it possible that you might be won over? Our reviewers were; find out why. 
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Natalie Haynes, Linda Grant and Nikesh Shukla. The producer is Oliver Jones

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Natalie recommends Company at The Gielgud Theatre in London, Hadestown at London's National Theatre, Good Grief Charlie Brown at Somerset House and the TV series Community 
Nikesh recommends The Good Place and Go Ahead In The Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib
Linda recommends Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 
Tom recommends going to see Monarch OF The Glen at London's National Gallery

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