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Saturday Review: Hustlers, A Very Expensive Poison, Tove Ditlevsen, William Blake, State of the Union

14/09/2019

Hustlers, A Very Expensive Poison, Tove Ditlevsen, William Blake, State of the Union

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Hustlers, A Very Expensive Poison, Tove Ditlevsen, William Blake, State of the Union

Strippers vengeance film Hustlers, A Very Expensive Poison about Litvinienko, Tove Ditlevsen's Copenhagen Trilogy, William Blake at Tate Britain, State of the Union on BBCTV

Hustlers is a new crime drama film based on a 2015 article in New York magazine about a group of strippers in the USA who decided to embezzle money from the men who came to their club.
A Very Expensive Poison at The Old Vic in London tells the story of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB man who was poisoned in 2006 in London by agents of the Russian state.
A trio of autobiographical works by the late Danish novelist Tove Ditlevsen have just been published: Childhood, Youth and Dependency. 
There's an extensive exhibition of art by William Blake just opened at Tate Britain
State Of The Union is a BBC TV series written by Nicjk Hornby and starring Chris O'Dowd and Rosamund Pike as a married couple undergoing marital therapy

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Liz Jensen, Amber Butchart and John Mullan. The producer is Oliver Jones

Podcast extra recommendations: 
Liz: Guerrilla gardening
John: Gloucester Crescent by William Miller
Amber: Margate Caves and Leiden Textile Research Centre in Holland https://www.trc-leiden.nl/
Tom: The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver + Evan Davis' Sharpiegate on Thursday's PM on Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008bb7 (listen from 41.22)

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