AS Byatt and Russell Kane review The Big Short, Julian Barnes, Champagne Life, 4000 Days, HG Wells on TV
AS Byatt and Russell Kane join the review panel for The Big Short, Julian Barnes, Champagne Life at the Saatchi Gallery, 4000 Days at London's Park Theatre and HG Wells on TV.
Oscar-nominated film The Big Short - a comedy about the financial crisis
Julian Barnes' new novel The Noise of Time tells the story of Russian composer Shostakovich, coping as a creative artistic genius under the yoke of the Stalin's Soviet system
Champagne Life - the Saatchi Gallery's exhibition of women artists.
New play 4000 Days at The Park Theatre is about a man who emerges from a coma and discovers he can't remember anything from the past decade.
Ray Winstone plays the author HG Wells in a new TV series"The Nightmare World of HG Wells
AS Byatt, (who has just won the Erasmus Prize) and comedian Russell Kane join Tom Sutcliffe and David Benedict. The producer is Oliver Jones.
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The Big Short
is in cinemas now, certificate 15.
Photo credit: Jaap Buitendijk Β© Paramount
Julian Barnes
Champagne Life
is at the Saatchi Gallery in London until 6 March 2016.
Image: Artworks by Alice Anderson. Left – Bound, 2011. Right - 181 Kilometers, 2015. Photo: Β Β© Steve White, 2015. Courtesy of the Saatchi Gallery, London.Β
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
begins on Thursday 28 January at 9pm on Sky Arts.
4000 Days
is at the Park Theatre in London until the 13 February 2016.
Image: Alistair McGowan in 4000 Days. Photo credit : Rory Lindsay.Β
Broadcast
- Sat 23 Jan 2016 19:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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