Saturday Review - Medea, Jeanette Winterson, The Martian, Edmund deWaal's White at the RA, TV crime series
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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.
Published on Saturday, 3rd October 2015.
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