Saturday Review - Electra, Gone Girl, The Code, Howard Jacobson, Gothic Imagination
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Kristin Scott Thomas plays the title role in Electra at The Old Vic. It's a millennia old play in a modern translation by Frank McGuinness and directed by Ian Rickson.
David Fincher's film version of Gillian Flynn's best seller Gone Girl stars Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Howard Jacobson's Booker-nominated novel J imagines a dystopian world where a Holocaust-type event might happen again.
Gothic Imagination at The British Library explores 250 years of a public predilection for horror and terror.
BBC4's new Australian drama The Code deals with a corrupt government dealing ruthlessly with cyber skulduggery.
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Stephanie Merritt, Dea Birkett and Sarfraz Manzoor. The producer is Oliver Jones.
Published on Saturday, 4th October 2014.
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