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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: When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Kafka's Last Trial, Bonnard, Destroyer

When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Kafka's Last Trial, Bonnard, Destroyer

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Kafka's Last Trial, Bonnard, Destroyer

When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other at London's National Theatre, Kafka's Last Trial by Benjamin Balint, Bonnard at Tate Modern, Nicole Kidman in Destroyer

Cate Blanchett's appearance on London's theatre scene has caused so much excitement that ticket  allocation is by ballot;  When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other: Twelve Variations on Samuel Richardson's Pamela at the National Theatre is described as "six characters who act out a dangerous game of sexual domination and resistance."

When Franz Kafka died in 1924, he left instructions that any remaining manuscripts should be burnt. These instructions were not followed and a legal battle ensued to decide to whom they should belong: to the country of his language - Germany, of his birth - Czechoslovakia or his cultural affinities -Israel?. Benjamin Balint's book follows the machinations of alleged ownership

An exhibition of paintings by Pierre Bonnard at Tate Modern; "The Colour Of Memory" includes several canvases with their frames removed to reveal how he worked.

Nicole Kidman plays a cop setting out to establish justice and to right wrongs in Destroyer.

And a sneak preview of Saturday Review's Podcast Extra
Cultural picks this week:

Lynn Shepherd – True Detective – series 1 and 3 https://www.hbo.com/true-detective

Katie Puchrik –  https://www.sceneonradio.org/

Inua Elems – American sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins by Terrance Hayes


Toms Sutcliffe's guests are Inua Ellams, Katie Puckrik and Lynn Shepherd. The producers are Oliver Jones and Hilary Dunn

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