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Revolution at the V&A, Ben Hur, Anthropoid, Maggi Hambling

Reviews the V&A exhibition You Say You Want A Revolution and the remake of Ben Hur. Plus, film director Sean Ellis on Anthropoid and Maggi Hambling's sketches at the British Museum.

"You Say You Want A Revolution"? asks the Victoria and Albert Museum. John Wilson takes a tour around its new blockbuster show which explores the great changes in civil rights, multi-culturalism, consumerism, youth culture, fashion and music that took place between 1966 - 1970 and examines how they changed the world.

As the Ben Hur remake hits our cinema screens, Kate Muir reviews the biblical epic.

"Operation Anthropoid," was the code name of a daring mission to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect of the Final Solution and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia. Sean Ellis is the director of a new film telling the extraordinary true story which stars Cillian Murphey, Jamie Dornan and Toby Jones as the Czech resistance.

The artist Maggi Hambling is best-known for her celebrated and controversial public works - a sculpture for Oscar Wilde in central London and Scallop, a 4-metre-high steel shell on Aldeburgh beach - as well as for her large and colourful portraits. Drawing though has always remained at the heart of her work and a new exhibition at the British Museum captures that. She talks about the creative experience of charcoal, graphite or ink on paper.

Image: The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics, 'Revolution' 1968 by Alan Aldridge (c) Iconic Images, Alan Aldridge.

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Chapters

  • You Say You Want A Revolution?

    Duration: 09:47

  • Ben Hur

    Duration: 04:33

  • Anthropoid

    Duration: 06:52

  • Maggi Hambling - Touch: works on paper

    Duration: 06:40

You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966 - 70

You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966 - 70

,ΜύLondon Μύfrom 10 September 2016 – 26 February 2017Μύ

Image:Μύ John Wilson with Victoria Broackes, co-curator of the exhibition.


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Ben Hur

Ben Hur

Ben Hur is in cinemas nationwide, certificate 12A.
Image:ΜύΜύ Messala Severus (Toby Kebbell)Μύ and Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston).Μύ
Credit: Philippe Antonello,Μύ Β© 2016 Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc.

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Anthropoid

Anthropoid
Anthropoid is released nationwide on Friday, cert 15.
Image:Μύ Cillian Murphy as JosefΜύGabčík.ΜύΜύ Credit:ΜύΜύ Icon Films

Maggi Hambling – Touch: works on paper

Maggi Hambling – Touch: works on paper

, 8 September 2016 - 29 January 2017
Image:Μύ Rosie, the stuffed rhinoceros in Ipswich Museum, 1963.Μύ Ink 48.3 x 34.9 cm, Maggi Hambling Β© The Trustees of the British Museum

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Presenter John Wilson
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Producer Rebecca Armstrong

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  • Wed 7 Sep 2016 19:15
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