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Saturday Review

Presenter Tom Sutcliffe and guests offer sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events

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Hunt for The Wilderpeople, Eimear McBride, Bedlam, National Treasure, Dr Faustus

Hunt for The Wilderpeople, Eimear McBride, Bedlam, National Treasure, Dr Faustus

New Zealand's most successful home grown film ever reaches the UK: Hunt for The Wilderpeople is a story about identity, ... Read more

17 Sep 2016

42mins

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Martin Amis, Pitcairn, The Moth, Obvious Child, Secret Life of Books

Martin Amis, Pitcairn, The Moth, Obvious Child, Secret Life of Books

Martin Amis' latest novel The Zone of Interest deals with the Holocaust, but has riled some critics because of its light... Read more

30 Aug 2014

41mins

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Henry IV, '71 film, Gotham on TV, Lila by Marilynne Robinson, Tracy Emin

Henry IV, '71 film, Gotham on TV, Lila by Marilynne Robinson, Tracy Emin

Phyllida Lloyd's all-female production of Henry IV at The Donmar Warehouse. '71, a film about a young British army soldi... Read more

11 Oct 2014

41mins

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RSC's Tempest, Indignation, Divines, Zadie Smith, Design Museum

RSC's Tempest, Indignation, Divines, Zadie Smith, Design Museum

The RSC's production latest Tempest features Simon Russell Beale as Prospero and has a holographic Ariel. Does cutting e... Read more

19 Nov 2016

42mins

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The Danish Girl, War and Peace, Deutschland 83, Angela Clarke Follow Me, Fallout 4 and Her Story

The Danish Girl, War and Peace, Deutschland 83, Angela Clarke Follow Me, Fallout 4 and Her Story

The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, portrayed in the film... Read more

2 Jan 2016

41mins

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Glenda Jackson as King Lear, The Innocents, Linda Grant, Elton John's photographs in Radical Eye, Close to the Enemy

Glenda Jackson as King Lear, The Innocents, Linda Grant, Elton John's photographs in Radical Eye, Close to the Enemy

Glenda Jackson returns to the stage after 25 years as an MP to play the title role in King Lear at London's Old Vic Thea... Read more

12 Nov 2016

42mins

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

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

Ruth Wilson plays the lead in Ivo van Hove's production of Hedda Gabler at London's National Theatre,Son of Joseph (a Fr... Read more

17 Dec 2016

42mins

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Hieronymus Bosch, OJ Simpson, North Water, A Bigger Splash, Battlefield

Hieronymus Bosch, OJ Simpson, North Water, A Bigger Splash, Battlefield

The biggest Hieronymus Bosch exhibition ever has just opened in Holland. 500 years after his death, Noordbrabants Museum... Read more

13 Feb 2016

42mins

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Uncle Vanya, Triple 9, The Night Manager, Mend the Living, Delacroix

Uncle Vanya, Triple 9, The Night Manager, Mend the Living, Delacroix

a bunch of corrupt cops stage a bank heist in Triple 9; but can there honour among thieves in such a high-stakes job?Che... Read more

20 Feb 2016

42mins

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Kate Grenville, God's Own Country, Folkestone Triennial, Yerma NT Live, Mitchell and Webb

Kate Grenville, God's Own Country, Folkestone Triennial, Yerma NT Live, Mitchell and Webb

How do you write about scent and smells? We're looking at Kate Grenville's new book The Case Against Fragrance which loo... Read more

2 Sep 2017

46mins

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Death of a Salesman, While We're Young, Alfred Hitchcock, Frames in Focus, Sex and the Church

Death of a Salesman, While We're Young, Alfred Hitchcock, Frames in Focus, Sex and the Church

Arthur Miller's Pullitzer prize winning 1949 play, Death of a Salesman, set in Brooklyn in New York, is one of the great... Read more

4 Apr 2015

41mins

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On Body And Soul, Our Town, Jennifer Egan, Basquiat, The Deuce

On Body And Soul, Our Town, Jennifer Egan, Basquiat, The Deuce

This year's Golden Bear winning film On Body And Soul is a peculiar love story between two social misfits who work at a ... Read more

23 Sep 2017

48mins

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Lady Bird, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Kettle's Yard, Howard Brenton: The Shadow Factory, Troy

Lady Bird, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Kettle's Yard, Howard Brenton: The Shadow Factory, Troy

Greta Gerwig's latest film stars Saoirse Ronan. Lady Bird has been Oscar-nominated but will it impress our panel of revi... Read more

17 Feb 2018

48mins

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Saturday Review

Tom Sutcliffe and guests review a gorgeous selection of this week's art

29 Jul 2017

45mins

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Listeners' cultural highlights of 2019

Listeners' cultural highlights of 2019

Find out what Saturday Review listeners chose as their cultural highlights of 2019. We asked what you'd enjoyed this ye... Read more

28 Dec 2019

1hr

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Alexander McQueen, Suite Francaise, X+Y, Antigone, Tom McCarthy

Alexander McQueen, Suite Francaise, X+Y, Antigone, Tom McCarthy

When an exhibition of the fashion creations of Alexander McQueen opened in New York, visitors queued for up to 5 hours t... Read more

14 Mar 2015

42mins

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Richard Diebenkorn, Mommy, Frozen, The Shore, Coalition

Richard Diebenkorn, Mommy, Frozen, The Shore, Coalition

The first major retrospective of Richard Diebenkorn's work for 25 years opens at London's Royal Academy. Derided by some... Read more

21 Mar 2015

41mins

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Anon, Life and Fate, Patrick Melrose, Jesmyn Ward: Sing Unburied Sing, Asterix at London's Jewish Museum

Anon, Life and Fate, Patrick Melrose, Jesmyn Ward: Sing Unburied Sing, Asterix at London's Jewish Museum

Is a world without crime a utopia or a dystopia if the price is total constant surveillance by the state? British thrill... Read more

12 May 2018

48mins

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The Beguiled, Joshua Cohen, Soul of a Nation, A Tale of Two Cities, Ozark

The Beguiled, Joshua Cohen, Soul of a Nation, A Tale of Two Cities, Ozark

Sophia Coppola's film The Beguiled is set during the American Civil War when a wounded Yankee soldier is rescued by the ... Read more

15 Jul 2017

45mins

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Journey's End, Julius Caesar, Julian Barnes, Charles I at the Royal Academy, Trauma on ITV

Journey's End, Julius Caesar, Julian Barnes, Charles I at the Royal Academy, Trauma on ITV

Journey's End opened as a play in 1928. Set in the trenches of the First World War, there's a new film version which wil... Read more

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