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Saturday Review: Little Women, War Of The Worlds Immersive Experience, Untitled Goose Game, Graphic novels, podcasts

04/01/2020

Little Women, War Of The Worlds Immersive Experience, Untitled Goose Game, Graphic novels, podcasts

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Little Women, War Of The Worlds Immersive Experience, Untitled Goose Game, Graphic novels, podcasts

Little Women, Immersive Theatre, Untitled Goose Game, graphic novels, podcasts

Little Women. War Of The Worlds Immersive Experience. Untitled Goose Game. Graphic novels: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me and November. Podcasts: 1619 and You're Dead To Me

There's a new all-star Little Women on the big screen. The cast includes Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emily Watson, Laura Dern, Timothee Chalamet and Meryl Streep. Louisa May Alcott's novel has been a popular text for film makers since the first silent version in 1912 - is there anything new which director Greta Gerwig can bring to this version? 
HG Wells' novel The War Of The Worlds is probably best known to many people as the Jeff Wayne musical version, it's the UK's 32nd best-selling studio album of all time. It's been a touring show, made into a video game and now it's become an immersive theatrical experience,complete with AI headsets.  
Untitled Goose Game is an award-winning game in which the player is a goose who wanders around irritating characters by honking and flapping at them. We look at a couple of graphic novels: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me and November.
Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in America. A podcast series “1619,” from The New York Times, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, examines the long shadow of that fateful moment. You're Dead To Me is a BBC podcast series which describes itself as "a history podcast for people who don't like history". Presented by Greg Jenner, it looks at a variety of subjects from a lighthearted perspective

Jordan Erica Webber's guests are Arifa Akbar, Naima Khan and Carl Anka. The producer is Oliver Jones.

Podcast Extra Recommendations:
Naima - Christina Craig; Mint Tea and Other Stories
Carl - Super Eyepatch Wolf 
Arifa - Death Of England at The National Theatre
Jordan Spinning by Tilley Walden

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