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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: What They Had, Dressed, Renaissance Nudes, Maggie Gee, Mother Father Son

02/03/2019

What They Had, Dressed, Renaissance Nudes, Maggie Gee, Mother Father Son

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, What They Had, Dressed, Renaissance Nudes, Maggie Gee, Mother Father Son

Hilary  Swank in What They Had, Dressed, Renaissance Nudes, Maggie Gee, Mother Father Son

Hilary Swank in What They Had, Dressed - the healing power of clothes, Renaissance Nudes at the RA, Maggie Gee's new novel - Blood, Richard Gere in Mother Father Son on BBC2

Hilary Swank stars in What They Had; a film which deals with the effects Alzheimer's Disease can have on the family of a loved one
Dressed was a big hit in Edinburgh last year, winning a Fringe First Award. It investigates the healing power of clothes. Following a traumatic experience, a young woman decides to create her entire wardrobe of clothes herself as her own way of coping
The latest exhibition at London's Royal Academy looks at Renaissance Nudes. Transferring from The Getty Centre in LA, it has many extraordianry works which have never come to the UK before.
Blood is Maggie Gee's new novel. About a deputy head-teacher on the run after her father has been found badly beaten and bloodied. He had plenty of people who loathed him but his daughter Monica falls under suspicion
It's more than 3 decades since Richard Gere made a TV series. In Mother Father Son on BBC2, he plays the patriarch of a super-powerful media mogul with personal family problems

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Rosie Boycott, Tom Dyckhoff and Muriel Zagha. The producer is Oliver Jones

Podcastextra recommendations:

Rosie: the joy of making pots, The novels of T C Boyle and The Uninhabitable Earth 
Tom D: The music of Talk Talk
Muriel: The Christian Dior Exhibition at The V+A, films about birth, The Geneva Ceramics Museum
Tom S: The York Museum Ceramics collection, The Dropout podcast

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