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Saturday Review

The Party, Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle, The Sparsholt Affair, Degas at the Fitzwilliam, The Gamble

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Sally Potter's The Party; Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle, at Wyndhams Theatre; Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair; Degas at The Fitzwilliam; The Gamble on R4. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Crompton
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson
Interviewed Guest:
Graham Farmelo
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Saturday Review

Destiny, Pride, The Leftovers, Ali Smith, Horst

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the most expensive video game ever, a film about gay groups supporting miners during the '84 strike, life after the Rapture and more. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson
Interviewed Guest:
Barb Jungr
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine O'Flynn
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Saturday Review

Grimsby, Javier Marias, Mark Wallinger, Sarah Kane, Murder and Broken Biscuits

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

The week's cultural highlights, including Sacha Baron Cohen's Grimsby, Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marias, a new Mark Wallinger exhibition and Sarah Kane's Cleansed. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Louise Scodie
Interviewed Guest:
Amanda Craig
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Saturday Review

Matisse cut-outs at Tate; Locke, RSC's Henry IV; Fargo on TV

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Tom Sutcliffe discusses Matisse cut-outs at Tate Modern, Tom Hardy in Locke, the RSC's Henry IV parts 1 and 2, Fargo the TV series and Jayne-Anne Phillips' new novel Quiet Dell. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Dreda Say Mitchell
Interviewed Guest:
Emma Woolf
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson

Saturday Review

Dark River, The B*easts, BBC TV's Civilisations, Fire Sermon, Pop! Art in Chichester

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Ruth Wilson in Dark River, The B*easts at London's Bush Theatre, BBC TV's new series Civilisations, Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro, Pop! Art in a Changing Britain in Chichester. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Maltby
Interviewed Guest:
Viv Groskop
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Saturday Review

Consent, A Quiet Passion, Jon McGregor, Tate St Ives, Car Share and Bucket

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Nina Raine's Consent at the National Theatre, the life of Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion, Jon McGregor: Reservoir 13, the reopening of Tate St Ives, Car Share and Bucket on TV. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Katie Puckrik
Interviewed Guest:
Alex Clark
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson
Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Saturday Review

Filth and Masters of Sex

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Irvine Welsh's novel Filth comes to the big screen starring James McAvoy, and Michael Sheen plays obstetrician William Masters in Masters of Sex on TV. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Antonia Quirke
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson
Interviewed Guest:
Kamila Shamsie
Producer:
Sarah Johnson

Night Waves

Captain Phillips, David Thomson, David Greig's The Events

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Matthew Sweet with a review of Paul Greengrass's new film, Captain Phillips, starring Tom Hanks and a discussion of David Greig's play based on the Norwegian massacre. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson
Interviewed Guest:
Anja Shortland
Interviewed Guest:
Cleo Van Velsen
Interviewed Guest:
Giles Fraser
Interviewed Guest:
Ramin Gray
Interviewed Guest:
David Thomson

Free Thinking

Sound Frontiers: Fiction in 1946

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

In front of an audience at Southbank Centre in London, Benjamin Markovits, Lara Feigel and Kevin Jackson join Matthew Sweet to explore some of the key books published in 1946. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Benjamin Markovits
Interviewed Guest:
Lara Feigel
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson
Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Producer:
Zahid Warley

Free Thinking

Landmark: Dante's The Divine Comedy

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Philip Dodd discusses Dante's The Divine Comedy with scholars Prue Shaw and Nick Havely, poet Sean O'Brien and writer Kevin Jackson. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Prue Shaw
Interviewed Guest:
Sean O'Brien
Interviewed Guest:
Nick Havely
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson

Free Thinking

Con Men, John Dee, F for Fake

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Maria Konnikova joins Matthew Sweet to explore the art of the con. Plus a review of a new exhibition celebrating Elizabethan alchemist and scholar John Dee. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Maria Konnikova
Interviewed Guest:
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Interviewed Guest:
Gary Lachman
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson
Producer:
Laura Thomas

Free Thinking

The Age of Earthquakes, Maths in Films

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

With writers Douglas Coupland and Shumon Basar and art historian Hans Ulrich Obrist on what is the 'extreme present'. Plus a discussion about maths and mathematicians in film. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Douglas Coupland
Interviewed Guest:
Shumon Basar
Interviewed Guest:
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Interviewed Guest:
Hannah Fry
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson

Open Book

Alcohol's influence on literature; James Runcie; Grace McCleen

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Mariella Frostrup talks to Grace McCleen about her new novel The Professor of Poetry and, on the centenary of her birth, James Runcie celebrates the life and work of Barbara Pym. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Grace McCleen
Interviewed Guest:
James Runcie
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson
Interviewed Guest:
Olivia Laing
Producer:
Andrea Kidd

Open Book

Elizabeth Strout - My Name Is Lucy Barton

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout talks to Mariella Frostrup about the inspiration for her new novel My Name Is Lucy Barton and her brief career as a stand-up comic. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Elizabeth Strout
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson

Front Row

Will Self, My Life as a Courgette, Raphael drawings

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

French animation My Life as a Courgette, Will Self on his new novel Phone plus a discussion on past experimental fiction with Kevin Jackson. Raphael's drawings at the Ashmolean. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Will Self
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson
Interviewed Guest:
Briony Hanson
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Cork
Producer:
Dymphna Flynn

Front Row

Authors' better, but not-so-famous, books; Kathryn Bigelow; Eric Ravilious; a Shakespeare Sonnet in Pidgin

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

A discussion of books better than their authors' best known; Kathryn Bigelow on why her new film, set in 1967, is urgent now; the English artist Eric Ravilious; a poem in Pidgin. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Kathryn Bigelow
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Cork
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson
Interviewed Guest:
Alex Clark
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Oyibo
Presenter:
Stig Abell
Producer:
Julian May