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Saturday Review

Hedda Gabler, Son of Joseph, Nadeem Aslam, Roger Hiorns, Maigret, Agatha Christie

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Ruth Wilson as Hedda Gabler, French film Son of Joseph, Nadeem Aslam's novel Golden Legend, Roger Hiorns at Ikon in Birmingham, and Maigret on ITV and Agatha Christie on BBC. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Alex Preston
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt
Interviewed Guest:
Jamila Gavin
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Saturday Review

Jonathan Franzen, People, Places and Things, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Lady Chatterley, Dulwich Picture Gallery

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Jonathan Franzen's Purity, People, Places and Things at the National Theatre, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Lady Chatterley and Dulwich Picture Gallery's permanent collection. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Meg Rosoff
Interviewed Guest:
David Olusoga
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt
Presenter:
Oliver Jones

Saturday Review

The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Humans, Killing Eve, Miriam Toews, I Object

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Humans at The Hampstead Theatre, Killing Eve on BBC3, Miriam Toews' novel Women Talking, and I Object, Search for Dissent at The British Museum. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Meg Rosoff
Interviewed Guest:
Francis Wheen
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Saturday Review

Angela Lansbury in the West End; Kate Winslet in Labor Day; Sebastian Barry's new novel

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Angela Lansbury in Blithe Spirit, Kate Winslet in Labor Day, Veronese exhibition at the National Gallery, ITV's The Widower, and Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt
Interviewed Guest:
Nicholas Barber
Interviewed Guest:
Susan Jeffreys
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Saturday Review

Coco, Tim Pears, All's Well That Ends Well, Hauser and Wirth Somerset, The Bastard of Istanbul

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Pixar's latest film Coco ,Tim Pears' novel The Wanderers, All's Well That Ends Well at London's Globe Theatre, Hauser & Wirth Somerset and The Bastard of Istanbul on Radio 4. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Tom Holland
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt
Interviewed Guest:
Kathryn Hughes
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Open Book

Great American Novel

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Mariella Frostrup explores American literature with writers Benjamin Markovits and Stephanie Merrit. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Benjamin Markovits
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt
Interviewed Guest:
Philip Lewis

Front Row

David Tennant, Costa Prize category winners, Alicia Vikander, January music

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

David Tennant talks about series two of Broadchurch. Plus category winners of the Costa Book Awards and Alicia Vikander on playing Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
David Tennant
Interviewed Guest:
Alicia Vikander
Interviewed Guest:
Bud McLintock
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt
Interviewed Guest:
Tim van Eyken
Producer:
Ellie Bury

Front Row

Photograph 51, Sebastian Faulks, John Eliot Gardiner

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Samira Ahmed reviews the new play Photograph 51, starring Nicole Kidman as scientist Rosalind Franklin. Plus Sebastian Faulks talks about his new novel Where My Heart Used to Beat. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Sebastian Faulks
Interviewed Guest:
John Eliot Gardiner
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt

Front Row

Costa Book Awards shortlist announced; Meera Syal; The Hunger Games review; Peter Bazalgette

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

The category shortlists for the 2014 Costa Book Awards; Meera Syal on her new stage role; the latest Hunger Games film reviewed; The Arts Council's Peter Bazalgette. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Producer:
Ellie Bury
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt
Interviewed Guest:
Sophia McDougall
Interviewed Guest:
Meera Syal
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Bazalgette

Front Row

Jess Thom on Beckett's Not I, Disbelieved women in fiction, Deep Throat Choir

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Jess Thom on why Beckett's Not I speaks to her so strongly as someone with Tourette's. And why are so many thrillers about women who are not believed? Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Jess Thom
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt
Interviewed Guest:
Lisa Appignanesi
Interviewed Guest:
Luisa Gerstein
Interviewed Guest:
Tanya Auclair
Producer:
Hannah Robins

Front Row

Pierce Brosnan on Mamma Mia, Irish arts funding, Summer reads

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Pierce Brosnan on his role in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, arts funding news from Ireland, and summer reading recommendations for holidaymakers in Spain, Malta and Greece. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Pierce Brosnan
Interviewed Guest:
Robert O'Byrne
Interviewed Guest:
Annie Doona
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Heaney
Interviewed Guest:
John Kampfner
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt
Producer:
Dymphna Flynn

Saturday Review

Hisham Matar, Faith Healer, The Colony, David Hockney, Brief Encounters

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Emma Watson in Chile-based thriller The Colony, Faith Healer at London's Donmar, Hisham Matar's latest book The Return, David Hockney's iPad work, ITV's Brief Encounters. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt
Interviewed Guest:
Dreda Say Mitchell
Interviewed Guest:
Pat Kane
Producer:
Oliver Jones

Front Row

Sam Neill, Sharon Bolton and Stephanie Merritt and how best to teach art history

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Sam Neill talks about Hunt for the Wilderpeople and his mentor James Mason; novelists Sharon Bolton and Stephanie Merritt on the importance of travelling to their books' settings. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Sam Neill
Interviewed Guest:
Sharon Bolton
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt
Interviewed Guest:
Nicholas Marston
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Bird
Interviewed Guest:
Caroline Osborne
Presenter:
Samira Ahmed

Saturday Review

Electra, Gone Girl, The Code, Howard Jacobson, Gothic Imagination

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Kristin Scott Thomas in Electra at the Old Vic, David Fincher's film Gone Girl, Howard Jacobson's Booker-nominated J, Gothic Imagination at British Library, and BBC4's The Code. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Merritt
Interviewed Guest:
Dea Birkett
Interviewed Guest:
Sarfraz Manzoor
Producer:
Oliver Jones