Saturday Review - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, Animals, Colson Whitehead, Olafur Eliasson, This Way Up
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, Scenes From The Luddite Rebellion has just opened at Manchester Royal Exchange. Combining verbatim recreations and imagined encounters, it looks at Manchester and England at the beginning of industrialisation
Animals is a new film based on the novel by Emma Jane Unsworth. Two friends messily drift along and apart and back together in Dublin
Colson Whitehead's new novel The Nickel Boys fictionalises the true story of a reform institution in Florida where cruelty, abuse and violence were the norm
Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life is at Tate Modern in London - showing 27 years of the output of the Norwegian Icelandic artist
This Way Up is a new sitcom on Channel 4 starring Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Henry Hitchings, Patrice Lawrence and Jen Harvie. The producer is Oliver Jones
PodcastExtra recommendations:
Jen: Burgerz by Travis Alabanza Shit Theatre's Drink Rum with Expats, and Fair Fringe /Cost Of The Fringe/ Fringe of Colour
Henry: Jonathan Gibbs - The Large Door
Patrice: Anthony Joseph - Kitch and Sam Selvon- The Lonely Londoners
Published on Saturday, 3rd August 2019.
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