Owen Sheers, Ninagawa's Hamlet, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ in Manchester, The New Girlfriend, Armada on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One
Featuring Owen Sheers's novel I Saw a Man, Ninagawa's Japanese Hamlet, and the opening of a new arts centre called Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ in Manchester.
Owen Sheers' novel I Saw A Man deals with loss, grief, guilt and attempted redemption
Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa has directed Hamlet 8 times. His latest production is playing at The Barbican in London - how well does this 17th Century English play transfer to a setting in 19th Century Japan?
Manchester has a brand new arts centre: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ. What will it add to to Manchester's vibrant arts scene?
Francois Ozon's film The New Girlfriend is based on a Ruth Rendell novel. How does the cross-dressing of the main character - a young widower - affect his friends, male and female?
Dan Snow presents Armada, 12 Days To Save England on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ2; taking a fresh modern look at the great Elizabethan sea battle - the reasons as well as the results.
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FILM: The New Girlfriend (15)
BOOK: I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers (faber and faber)
EXHIBITION: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, Manchester including The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
Tony Wilson Place, First Street, just off Whitworth Street West, roughly opposite the Hacienda apartments and a short walk from Oxford Road and Deansgate-Castlefield Metrolink stop
Interior of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's theatrephotocredit - Paul Karalius
THEATRE: Yukio Ninagawa’s Hamlet
Thursday 21-Sunday 24 May 2015.  Followed by the Ninagawa Company’s – Kafka on the Shore - based on the work of Haruki Murakami.  Thursday 28-Saturday 30 May 2015, Barbican Theatre
Yukio Ninagawa, Hamlet, Ensemblephoto credit Takahiro WatanabeΒ
ΜύΜύ
TV: Armada: 12 Days to Save England
Broadcast
- Sat 23 May 2015 19:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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