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Review, The Wedding Banquet, Isabel Allende, The Brightening Air

Ang Lee's 1993 classic The Wedding Banquet gets an update, Isabel Allende has a new novel, plus the Brightening Air at London's Old Vic theatre.

Authors Matt Cain and Eimear McBride join Tom Sutcliffe to review a new remake of Ang Lee's 1993 classic The Wedding Banquet. They also discuss Isabel Allende's new novel My Name is Emilia del Valle and the play The Brightening Air, on at the Old Vic theatre in London. And the National Gallery is having a re-hang, we speak to Head of the Curatorial Department, Christine Riding.

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Thu 8 May 202519:15
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