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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: At the Edinburgh Festivals, including The Secret River and the Pet Shop Boys Musical, Musik

At the Edinburgh Festivals, including The Secret River and the Pet Shop Boys Musical, Musik

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, At the Edinburgh Festivals, including The Secret River and the Pet Shop Boys Musical, Musik

At the Edinburgh Festivals, including The Secret River and  the Pet Shop Boys musical.

We're in Edinburgh, drawing your attention to some festival highlights, including the Pet Shop Boys musical Musik and a stage adaptation of Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River

We're at the Edinburgh Festivals, including the Pet Shop Boys/Jonathan Harvey musical starring Frances Barber: Musik. Also the stage adaptation of Kate Grenville's best-selling novel about the collision between settlers and Indigenous Australians, The Secret River. As well as the Bridget Riley retrospective at The National Gallery of Scotland and Blinded By The Light - the film of Safraz Mansoor's story about growing up in Luton and his love for the music of Bruce Springsteen.
Also we find out what wonders members of our audience have come across.     

Tom Sutcliffe's guests Denise Mina, Louise Welsh and Don Paterson. The producer is Oliver Jones

Audience recommendations: 
Samson Young at talbot Rice Gallery, Twice Over at Greenside, Bystanders at Summerhall, Something About Simon at Assembly George Square, The Edinburgh Night Walk at The Fruitmarket Gallery , Scottish Ballet's The Crucuble   

PodcastExtra recommendations:
Denise -My Favourite Murder podcast
Don - Succession
Louise - Robert McFarlane's Underland
Tom -Documentary Now.  And Crocodile Fever at The Traverse. And Peter Gynt at The Festival Theatre

also Cora Bissett - What Girls Are Made Of at The Assembly Hall

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