Saturday Review - AS Byatt and Russell Kane review The Big Short, Julian Barnes, Champagne Life, 4000 Days, HG Wells on TV
Oscar-nominated film The Big Short - a comedy about the financial crisis
Julian Barnes' new novel The Noise of Time tells the story of Russian composer Shostakovich, coping as a creative artistic genius under the yoke of the Stalin's Soviet system
Champagne Life - the Saatchi Gallery's exhibition of women artists.
New play 4000 Days at The Park Theatre is about a man who emerges from a coma and discovers he can't remember anything from the past decade.
Ray Winstone plays the author HG Wells in a new TV series"The Nightmare World of HG Wells
AS Byatt, (who has just won the Erasmus Prize) and comedian Russell Kane join Tom Sutcliffe and David Benedict. The producer is Oliver Jones.
Published on Saturday, 23rd January 2016.
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