If Beale Street Could Talk, Home I'm Darling, Tessa Hadley, George Shaw exhibition, David Bowie
Oscar-tipped If Beale Street Could Talk, Katherine Parkinson in Home I'm Darling, Tessa Hadley's Late in the Day , George Shaw exhibition in Bath, David Bowie: Finding Fame on BBC2
Oscar-tipped If Beale Street Could Talk is directed by Barry Jenkins who won Best Picture in 2016 for Moonlight... A woman in Harlem embraces her pregnancy while she and her family struggle to prove her fiancé is innocent of a crime
Katherine Parkinson stars in Home I'm Darling, recently opened at London's Duke of York Theatre, as an ideal 1950s housewife living in the present day
Tessa Hadley's newest novel Late In The Day. The death of a close friend in a tight circle of long-term friends throws all the remaining relationships into sharp relief
The painter George Shaw - famed for his realist suburban subject matter has a new exhibition opening at the Holburne Museum in Bath
A new BBC2 documentary David Bowie: Finding Fame investigates how David Robert Jones became David Bowie using previously unseen footage, interviews with friends and lovers and correspondence that is less than flattering.
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Susie Boyt, Irenosen Okojie and Pat Kane. The producer is Oliver Jones
Podcast extra recommendations:
Irenosen: Russian Doll on Netflix
Tom: Ruskin Exhibition at 2 Temple Place
Last on
Home, I'm Darling

Home I’m Darling runs at The Duke of York Theatre in London until 13th April
Image: Manuel HarlanIf Beale Street Could Talk

If Beale Street Could Talk is in cinemas from 8th February, certificate 15
George Shaw: A Corner Of A Foreign Field

George Shaw: A corner of a foreign field is at The Holburne Museum in Bath until 6th May
Photo: The Blossomiest Blossom, 2001
© George Shaw courtesy Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London / Photo: Peter White
David Bowie: Finding Fame

David Bowie: Finding Fame is on BBC2 at 2100 on 9th February
Tessa Hadley

Late In The Day by Tessa Hadley is published by Jonathan Cape
Podcast Recommendations
Tom recommends John Ruskin at 2 Temple Place
Irenosen recommends Russian Doll on Netflix
Pat recommends The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, The Fall At Home by Don Paterson
Susie recommends Graceland by Bethan Roberts
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- Sat 9 Feb 201919:15BBC Radio 4
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