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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: The Long Shot, Jude, Making Your Mark at British Library, The Heavens

04/05/2019

The Long Shot, Jude, Making Your Mark at British Library, The Heavens

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, The Long Shot, Jude, Making Your Mark at British Library, The Heavens

Long Shot, Brenton's Jude, Making Your Mark at British Library, The Heavens

Romcom film Long Shot, Howard Brenton's Jude at Hampstead Theatre, Writing: Making Your Mark exhibition at The British Library, Sandra Newman's novel The Heavens.

Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen star in Long Shot playing an American presidential hopeful and a lovable doofus. Take a wild guess who plays which part? 
Howard Brenton's new play Jude -at The Hampstead Theatre - is a re-imagining of Thomas Hardy's Jude The Obscure with a Syrian cleaner who possesses a prodigious skill set in the classics and ancient languages - as the title character 
Writing: Making Your Mark is the newest exhibition at The British Library. It charts 5,000 years of human innovation from hieroglyphs to emojis 
Sandra Newman's novel The Heavens can be seen as five works in one -  a time travel story, historical fiction, political allegory, social realism and a love story. How satisfyingly do the component parts combine into a coherent whole?

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Tom Shakespeare, Helen Lewis and Katie Puckrik.
The producer is Oliver Jones

Podcast Extra recommendations:

Tom Shakespeare - Phyllida Barlow at the Royal Academy and The Porpoise by Mark Haddon and The Bodmer Library in Geneva
Helen Lewis - Ritblatt Treasures at The British Library and Patrick Melrose on NowTV 
Katie Puckrik -Clique on BBC3 and 
Tom Sutcliffe -Barry on NowTV

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