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The Day Shall Come, Man In The White Suit, Zadie Smith, Hogarth - Place and Progress

Chris Morris' film: The Day Shall Come, Man In The White Suit on stage, Zadie Smith's short story collection: Grand Union, Hogarth exhibition - Place and Progress

Chris Morris's film The Day Shall Come, is a very dark comedy about a genuine FBI operation to deal with potential domestic terrorists in the USA.
Man In The White Suit was one of the highly-successful Ealing Comedy films. Released in 1951, it told the story of a man who invents a revolutionary fabric. Now adapted for the stage starring Stephen Mangan in the role originally played by Alec Guinness.
Zadie Smith has published a collection of short stories called Grand Union.
Hogarth exhibition - Place and Progress. All of the paintings and engravings in Hogarth's series are united for the first time at the Sir John Soanes Museum in London

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Bob and Roberta Smith, Naima Khan and Stephanie Merritt. The producer is Oliver Jones.

Podcast Extra recommendations:
Bob and Roberta Smith - Kara Walker at Tate Modern
Stephanie: Rachel Cusk - Coventry, Zadie Smith - In Defence Of Fiction, Rebecca Solnit - Whose story is this , Sinead Gleeson -Constellation, Emilie Pine - Notes to Self. Also Brooklyn 99
Naima: The Guilty on Netflix
Tom: The Politician on Netflix and Jonathan Coe - Sinking Giggling Into The Sea in the LRB

Main image: MarchΓ΅nt Davis, The Day Shall Come
Courtesy eOne / IFC Films

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49 minutes

The Day Shall Come

The Day Shall Come
MarchΓ΅nt Davis
Image: eOne / IFC Films

The Day Shall Come is in cinemas from 11 Oct, cert 15

The Man in the White Suit

The Man in the White Suit
Wyndham's Theatre until 11 Jan 2020
Image credit: Nobby Clark

Grand Union: Stories

Grand Union: Stories
Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith is published by Hamish Hamilton
Photographer: Dominique Nabokov

Hogarth: Place and Progress

Hogarth: Place and Progress
Sir John Soane's Museum until 5 Jan 2020
A Rake's Progress, 3: The Orgy. Oil on canvas 1734
Image: © The Trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum

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  • Sat 12 Oct 2019 19:15

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