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Saturday Review: David Copperfield, Welkin, Motherwell, Pregnancy exhibition, Windermere Children

25/01/2020

David Copperfield, Welkin, Motherwell, Pregnancy exhibition, Windermere Children

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, David Copperfield, Welkin, Motherwell, Pregnancy exhibition, Windermere Children

Armando Iannucci's David Copperfield, Welkin at the National Theatre, Motherwell by Deborah Orr, Pregnancy exhibition at the Foundling Museum and The Windermere Children.

Armando Iannucci has taken on Dickens' David Copperfield with Dev Patel in the lead role
A new play by Lucy Kirkwood, Welkin, has opened at London's National Theatre. The Welkin is set in Norfolk in 1759, when a jury of matrons is called to try a female murder suspect who is 'pleading the belly' in order to avoid execution 
Motherwell is the memoir of journalist, the late Deborah Orr recounting her childhood and growing up in Scotland and trying to break from her family
Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media is a new exhibition at London's Foundling Museum which looks at how artists have shown pregnant women over the centuries.  Admission fee charged.
The Windermere Children on BBC2 is the story of 300 Polish child survivors of concentration camps who were brought to the UK after the war and billetted in The Lake District 

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Helen Lewis, Catherine Yass and Mark Billingham
The producer is Oliver Jones


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Catherine: Steve McQueen Year 3 at Tate Britain & A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride & Yinka Shonibare's Farm in Nigeria
Mark: Elvis Presley 68 Comeback Special & Long Bright River by Liz Moore 
Helen: House Of Glass by Hadley Freeman & In The Darkroom by Susan Faludi
Tom: Daniel Finkelstein's tweet thread about his mother's escape from Germany  & Miss Austen by Gill Hornby & Shook opening at the Trafalgar Studios in April.

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