Saturday Review - A Little Life, Trainwreck, John Hurt, Scandalous Lady W, Bedwyr Williams

A Little Life, Trainwreck, John Hurt, Scandalous Lady W, Bedwyr Williams

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Hanya Yanagihara's novel A Little Life is an expansive novel about a group of male friends in New York. It has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015. American comic actor Amy Schumer stars in Trainwreck as a hard-living young woman for whom love turns her life around Sir John Hurt plays the title role in Radio 4's adaptation of John Mortimer's 1989 play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell; an entertainingly dissolute life spent in old Soho. The Scandalous Lady W on BBC2 tells the story of an 18th century noblewoman whose infidelity led to a sensational public trial. Bedwyr Williams is a Welsh artist who has exhibited work at The Venice Biennale and now has a show at The Whitworth in Manchester (Museum of The Year 2015).


Published on Saturday, 15th August 2015.

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