Ranked #1
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
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42mins
Ranked #2
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
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41mins
Ranked #3
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
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41mins
Ranked #4
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
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42mins
Ranked #5
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
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41mins
Ranked #6
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
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42mins
Ranked #7
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
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42mins
Ranked #8
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
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42mins
Ranked #9
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
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42mins
Ranked #10
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
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46mins
Ranked #11
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
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41mins
Ranked #12
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
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48mins
Ranked #13
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
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48mins
Ranked #14
Saturday Review
Saturday Review
Tom Sutcliffe and guests review a gorgeous selection of this week's art
29 Jul 2017
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45mins
Ranked #15
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
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1hr
Ranked #16
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
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42mins
Ranked #17
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
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41mins
Ranked #18
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
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48mins
Ranked #19
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
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45mins
Ranked #20
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
3 Feb 2018
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47mins