Main content

Electra, Gone Girl, The Code, Howard Jacobson, Gothic Imagination

Kristin Scott Thomas in Electra at the Old Vic, David Fincher's film Gone Girl, Howard Jacobson's Booker-nominated J, Gothic Imagination at British Library, and ±«Óãtv4's The Code.

Kristin Scott Thomas plays the title role in Electra at The Old Vic. It's a millennia old play in a modern translation by Frank McGuinness and directed by Ian Rickson.

David Fincher's film version of Gillian Flynn's best seller Gone Girl stars Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Howard Jacobson's Booker-nominated novel J imagines a dystopian world where a Holocaust-type event might happen again.

Gothic Imagination at The British Library explores 250 years of a public predilection for horror and terror.

±«Óãtv4's new Australian drama The Code deals with a corrupt government dealing ruthlessly with cyber skulduggery.

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Stephanie Merritt, Dea Birkett and Sarfraz Manzoor. The producer is Oliver Jones.

Available now

45 minutes

Last on

Sat 4 Oct 2014 19:15
±«Óãtv Radio 4

More episodes

Previous

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Anselm Kiefer, An Enemy of the People, Ida

Next

Henry IV, '71 film, Gotham on TV, Lila by Marilynne Robinson, Tracy Emin

See all episodes from Saturday Review

Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination

An exhibition at the British Library in London, is on display until 20 January 2015. Main Image: Film still of Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff in The Bride of Frankenstein, 1939 © Universal / The Kobal Collection

Electra

A version by Frank McGuinness,  by Sophocles is at The Old Vic in London until Saturday 20 December 2014.

Gone Girl

Directed by David Fincher, Gone Girl is in cinemas from Friday 3 October, certificate 18.

J: A Novel

J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson is published by Jonathan Cape.

The Code

New six part Australian thriller The Code begins Saturday 11 October on ±«Óãtv Four.

Credits

Presenter Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest Stephanie Merritt
Interviewed Guest Dea Birkett
Interviewed Guest Sarfraz Manzoor
Producer Oliver Jones

Broadcast

  • Sat 4 Oct 2014 19:15
    ±«Óãtv Radio 4

Subscribe to the Saturday Review podcast

Sign up to the Saturday Review podcast for the latest and past episodes to download.

Podcast

  • Saturday Review

    Sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events, with Tom Sutcliffe and guests

Gallery