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Saturday Review: Almodovar's Pain and Glory, Robert Icke's The Doctor, Brassic, Peter Pomerantsev

24/08/2019

Almodovar's Pain and Glory, Robert Icke's The Doctor, Brassic, Peter Pomerantsev

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Almodovar's Pain and Glory, Robert Icke's The Doctor, Brassic, Peter Pomerantsev

Almodovar's Pain and Glory, Robert Icke's The Doctor, Brassic, Peter Pomerantsev.

Pedro Almodovar's new film Pain and Glory, Robert Icke's The Doctor at London's Almeida Theatre, Brassic on Sky TV, Peter Pomerantsev's book This Is Not Propaganda.

Pedro Almodovar's new film Pain and Glory has been hailed as his most personal to date
The Doctor at London's Almeida Theatre is Robert Icke's latest production. Freely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi, it's a play about ethics, morals and the repercussions of decisions both personal and professional. And how does what we say we are affect other people's perceptions of us? 
Peter Pomerantsev's "This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality"  is a book exploring the wreckage of liberal democracy and a search for the signs of its revival.
Brassic is a new TV series on Sky,  co-created by This Is England’s Joe Gilgun and Bafta-winning writer Danny Brocklehurst. It's about a  group of working-class friends in Lancashire finding ways to win at life 

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Adam Mars Jones, Dorian Lynskey and Kit Davis. The producer is Oliver Jones

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