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The Vote, The Crow Eaters, Girlhood, Brighton Festival, Grace and Frankie

Bapsi Sidhwa's The Crow Eaters, French film Girlhood, avian art at the Brighton Festival, Grace and Frankie on Netflix and The Vote, an election comedy at Donmar Warehouse.

The Vote is a comedy set in a polling station on election night, performed live at the Donmar Warehouse and simultaneously broadcast on More4. Starring Mark Gatiss, Judi Dench, Catherine Tate and nearly 40 more actors, can it have a life after we announce our verdict?
Bapsi Sidhwa's novel The Crow Eaters is a classic of Pakistani writing; a darkly humorous tale of a family in Lahore in the early 1900s. fans include Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi and Fatima Bhutto. What will our panel make of it?
The French film Girlhood tells the story of the lives of a group of young black Parisiennes; a group notably underrepresented in French cinema. Does this film do something original with the idea?
We look at a couple of works at this year's Brighton Festival on an avian theme: Dawn Chorus, humans reproducing birdsong and Murmuration looking at birdwatching and spying
Grace and Frankie is a new comedy series starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as two septuagenarians who are surprised when their husbands announce that they're gay and intend to marry each other.

Image: Mark Gatiss as Steven Crosswell in The Vote, Donmar Warehouse
Photo Credit: Johan Persson.

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45 minutes

THEATRE: The Vote

THEATRE: The Vote

Now finished, the production was on at the , London from Friday 24 April until Thursday 7 May 2015.

Image:Β Catherine Tate and Timothy West. Photo Credit: Johan Persson

BOOK: The Crow Eaters

By Bapsi Sidhwa, published by Daunt Books

FILM: Girlhood

FILM: Girlhood

Released in cinemas nationwide on Friday 8 May 2015, certificate 15

Image: Karidja TourΓ©, Assa Sylla, Karamoh Adiatou & TourΓ© Fily inΒ Girlhood (2014)

EXHIBITION: Brighton Festival: A Murmuration

EXHIBITION: Brighton Festival: A Murmuration
By Sarah Wood and Lucy Harris, in collaboration with writers Helen Macdonald and Olivia Laing is on at the from Saturday 2 May until Sunday 24 May 2015

EXHIBITION: Brighton Festival: Dawn Chorus

EXHIBITION: Brighton Festival: Dawn Chorus
By British artist Marcus Coates is on at the from Saturday 2 May until Sunday 24 May 2015

TV: Grace and Frankie

TV: Grace and Frankie

Released on on Friday 8 May 2015Β Β 

Image:Β Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Photo Credit: Melissa Moseley for Netflix

Broadcast

  • Sat 9 May 2015 19:15

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