Medea, Jeanette Winterson, The Martian, Edmund deWaal's White at the RA, TV crime series
The week's cultural highlights, including Medea at London's Almeida, Edmund de Waal's exhibition at the Royal Academy and Jeanette Winterson's The Gap of Time.
Medea is the latest production in London's Almeida Theatre's Greek season. Written by Rachel Cusk it portrays Medea as a realist and a moralist not a maniac.
The writer Edmund deWaal's interest in porcelain can be seen in an exhibition "White", at London's Royal Academy Library
Jeanette Winterson's latest novel The Gap of Time retells Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, setting it in the modern day.
Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars in The Martian: how do you cope with life millions of miles from any other human being? And as 2 new TV crime series begin - Unforgotten and From Darkness - we consider the enduring appeal of police detective dramas.
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Iwona Blazwick, Don Guttenplan and Sarah Churchwell. The producer is Oliver Jones.
Last on
FILM: The Martian (12a)
EXHIBITION: White curated by Edmund deWaal
Until 3 January 2016
Image credit:
Johann Friedrich Böttger, Two handled beaker, Meissen, Germany, c.1720. Porcelain from the collection of Edmund De Waal
Photographer: Ian Skelton
Main image credit:
The Hare with Amber Eyes - attributed to Sawaki Rizo Masatoshi from the collection of Edmund de Waal
Photographer: Michael Harvey
BOOK: The Gap of Time
THEATRE: Medea
Until 14 November 2015
Image credit: Cast of Medea at the Almeida Theatre. Credit Marc Brenner
TV: ITV1 - Unforgotten
TV: BBC One - From Darkness
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Tom Sutcliffe |
| Interviewed Guest | Iwona Blazwick |
| Interviewed Guest | Don Guttenplan |
| Interviewed Guest | Sarah Churchwell |
| Producer | Olivia Jones |
Broadcast
- Sat 3 Oct 201519:15BBC Radio 4
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