Pan, Titian to Canaletto, Lisa Genova, Marcus Gardley
New film Pan reviewed, Titian to Canaletto: Drawing in Venice, Lisa Genova on her new novel Inside the O'Briens, and dramatist Marcus Gardley on A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes.
Hugh Jackman stars as Blackbeard in Pan, a new adaptation of J.M. Barrie's story of the boy who never grew up. Mark Eccleston reviews the film which also features Cara Delevingne and Rooney Mara.
A new exhibition Titian to Canaletto: Drawing in Venice focuses on the overlooked element of Venetian art from 1500 to 1750 which opens today at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University, assesses the works on display.
Lisa Genova, a trained neuroscientist and author of Still Alice which explored early-onset Alzheimer's, discusses her new novel Inside The O'Briens, in which the head of the family discovers he has Huntington's Disease. The writer reveals why she believes she can achieve more in that field by writing novels than she did in the lab.
A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes is a theatrical reworking of Moliere's satire Tartuffe, transplanted to present-day Atlanta, Georgia. It's a comedy set in a world of guns, fast-food tycoons and black churches. The dramatist Marcus Gardley, whose father was a pastor and whose uncle a founder of the Black Panthers, discusses his adaptation.
Presenter Samira Ahmed
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
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Lisa Genova
Duration: 08:44
Pan
Duration: 05:12
Titian to Canaletto
Duration: 05:12
Marcus Gardley
Duration: 08:42
Lisa Genova
Inside The O’Briens is available in paperback and ebook now.
Pan
is in cinemas from Friday 16 October certificate PG.Ìý
Image: ©2015 Warner Bros. Entertainment inc. and Ratpac-Dune Entertainment LLC
Drawing in Venice
is at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford until 10 January 2016.
ÌýLeft - Tiziano Vecellio, known as TitianÌý (c.1485-90‒1576) - A Horse and Rider falling. © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
Right: Jenny Saville - Pastel Bodies, 2014. © Jenny Saville. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Private Collection
ÌýA Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes
is showing at the Tricycle Theatre in London until 14 November 2015.
Photo by Mark Douet
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Role Contributor Presenter Samira Ahmed Interviewed Guest Mark Eccleston Interviewed Guest Martin Kemp Interviewed Guest Lisa Genova Interviewed Guest Marcus Gardley Producer Jerome Weatherald Broadcast
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