The Long Shot, Jude, Making Your Mark at British Library, The Heavens
Romcom film Long Shot, Howard Brenton's Jude at Hampstead Theatre, Writing: Making Your Mark exhibition at The British Library, Sandra Newman's novel The Heavens.
Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen star in Long Shot playing an American presidential hopeful and a lovable doofus. Take a wild guess who plays which part?
Howard Brenton's new play Jude -at The Hampstead Theatre - is a re-imagining of Thomas Hardy's Jude The Obscure with a Syrian cleaner who possesses a prodigious skill set in the classics and ancient languages - as the title character
Writing: Making Your Mark is the newest exhibition at The British Library. It charts 5,000 years of human innovation from hieroglyphs to emojis
Sandra Newman's novel The Heavens can be seen as five works in one - a time travel story, historical fiction, political allegory, social realism and a love story. How satisfyingly do the component parts combine into a coherent whole?
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Tom Shakespeare, Helen Lewis and Katie Puckrik.
The producer is Oliver Jones
Podcast Extra recommendations:
Tom Shakespeare - Phyllida Barlow at the Royal Academy and The Porpoise by Mark Haddon and The Bodmer Library in Geneva
Helen Lewis - Ritblatt Treasures at The British Library and Patrick Melrose on NowTV
Katie Puckrik -Clique on ±«Óãtv3 and
Tom Sutcliffe -Barry on NowTV
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Jude
Jude runs at the Hampstead Theatre until 1st June
Image: Marc BrennerThe Heavens by Sandra Newman
Heavens by Sandra Newman is published by GrantaÂ
Image: George BaierLong Shot
Long Shot (cert 15) is in cinemas now
Writing: Making Your Mark
Writing: Making Your Mark is at the British Library until 27th August and at .
Image: courtesy British LibraryPodcast recommendations
Katie recommends Clique
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Tom Shakespeare recommends , and
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- Sat 4 May 2019 19:15±«Óãtv Radio 4
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