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The Trials of Jimmy Rose, Cerys Matthews and Timberlake Wertenbaker, Zambezi News, Miss Julie

Kirsty Lang speaks to Cerys Matthews and Timberlake Wertenbaker about Our Country's Good and to Zimbabwean comedy duo Zambezi News about their work.

Ray Winstone and Amanda Redman star in a new ITV drama, The Trials of Jimmy Rose. Winstone plays a notorious criminal who is released from prison to find that the world has changed beyond recognition. Dreda Say Mitchell reviews.

Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker and singer songwriter Cerys Matthews discuss their new production of Our Country's Good, which is set in Botany Bay as the first ships filled with British convicts arrive. In her debut as a stage composer, Matthews has created a score that combines English folk music with didgeridoos.

Journalist and arts critic Jake Kerridge reviews the The Girl in the Spider's Web, which continues the saga of Stieg Larsson's hacker Lisbeth Salander and investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist. Larsson died in 2004, so his best selling Millennium series is being, somewhat controversially, continued by author David Lagercrantz.

In Zimbabwe, satire has found its voice on the internet in a country where there's only one TV channel run by the government. Zambezi News uses satire to talk about everything from vote rigging to corruption. Kirsty Lang speaks to its creators Comrade Fatso and Outspoken.

Tim Robey reviews Miss Julie, Liv Ullman's new film adaptation of Strindberg's classic play about sexual power and dominance. Set in a country estate in Ireland in the1880s it stars Colin Farrell, Jessica Chastain and Samantha Morton.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Olivia Skinner.

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30 minutes

Chapters

  • The Trials of Jimmy Rose

    Duration: 04:26

  • Cerys Matthews and Timberlake Wertenbaker

    Duration: 08:18

  • The Girl in the Spider's Web

    Duration: 04:00

  • Zambezi News

    Duration: 06:35

  • Miss Julie

    Duration: 04:29

The Trials of Jimmy Rose

The Trials of Jimmy Rose

The Trials of Jimmy Rose starts on ITV on Sunday 30 August at 9pm.聽

Our Country鈥檚 Good

Our Country鈥檚 Good

is at the National Theatre in London until 17 October 2015.

Image: Shalisha James 鈥揇avis and Paul Kaye. Photographer: Simon Annand.

The Girl in the Spider's Web

The Girl in the Spider's Web

The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz is out now in hard back and ebook now.

Image: Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander in the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. 聽

Zambezi News

Zambezi News

will be performing at the in Northamptonshire on Saturday 29 August.



Miss Julie

Miss Julie

Miss Julie will be in cinemas from Friday 4 September, certificate 12.

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest Dreda Say Mitchell
Interviewed Guest Timberlake Wertenbaker
Interviewed Guest Cerys Matthews
Interviewed Guest Jake Kerridge
Interviewed Guest Comrade Fatso
Interviewed Guest Outspoken
Interviewed Guest Tim Robey
Producer Olivia Skinner

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  • Thu 27 Aug 2015 19:15

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