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.
Last on
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
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: Dawn Chorus
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 19:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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