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Alexander McQueen, Suite Francaise, X+Y, Antigone, Tom McCarthy

The Alexander McQueen exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the films Suite Francaise and X+Y, Juliette Binoche in Antigone and Tom McCarthy's Satin Island.

When an exhibition of the fashion creations of Alexander McQueen opened in New York, visitors queued for up to 5 hours to get in. It's now at London's Victoria and Albert Museum; will it be such a crowd-puller
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemerovski's wartime novel (discovered more than six decades after her death) was a best seller. Can it repeat its success as a film?
X+Y is a film about a young maths prodigy who is on the autistic spectrum. It deals with his participation in the International Mathematical Olympiad and growing up emotionally
Juliette Binoche plays the lead in Antigone at London's Barbican Theatre. Directed by Ivo Von Hove, it's caused a lot of advance excitement.
Tom McCarthy's new novel Satin Island is a meditation on contemporary society that some reviewers have accused of ditching traditionally novelistic techniques like plot and character. Is it all the better for it?

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Helen Lewis, Dominic Sandbrook and Kit Davis. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

The exhibition is at the V&A Museum in London until 2nd August 2015.
Main Image: Alexander McQueen, Jellyfish ensemble and Armadillo shoes, Plato's Atlantis, S/S 2010, Model: Polina Kasina, © Lauren Greenfield/Institute. 

Suite Francaise

Directed by Saul Dibb, the film Suite Francaise is in cinemas from Friday 13 March, certificate 15.

X + Y

Directed by Morgan Matthews, the film X + Y is in cinemas from Friday 13 March, certificate 12A.Β 

Antigone

A new translation by Anne Carson, directed by Ivo van Hove, is at the Barbican Centre in London until 28 March 2015.Β 

Satin Island

The book Satin Island is published by Jonathan Cape.Β 

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Presenter Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest Helen Lewis
Interviewed Guest Dominic Sandbrook
Interviewed Guest Kit Davis
Producer Oliver Jones

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