Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Women Beware Women, Christos Tsiolkas, Leon Spilliaert, Noughts and Crosses
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Women Beware Women at The Globe Theatre, Christos Tsiolkas - Damascus, Leon Spilliaert at Royal Academy, Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses on TV
The newest film by French director Céline Sciamma (Tomboy, Girlhood) is Portrait Of A Lady On Fire. An 18th century painter is commissioned to paint a bride-to-be's wedding portrait and falls in love with her subject
Women Beware Women is a play by Middleton just opened at The Globe Theatre in London. How do you navigate a society in which women are consciously and unconsciously commodified, coerced and controlled?
Australian author Christos Tsiolkas came to international attention with his best-selling novel The Slap. His latest - Damascus - retells the story of St Paul's conversion.
Leon Spilliaert was a Belgian painter in the early 20th century whose work often reflected his insomnia and seaside settings. A new exhibition at London's Royal Academy brings this lesser-known artist into the spotlight
Malorie Blackman's successful Noughts and Crosses novels have been adapted for TV and they're coming to Â鶹Éç1 at the beginning of March
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Sathnam Sanghera, Muriel Zhaga and Susan Jeffreys. The producer is Oliver Jones
Podcast Extra recommendations:
Sathnam - Jay-Z on Spotify
Susan - Choirs and singing by candlelight
Muriel - making Delia Smith's marmalade and rewatching Friends
Tom - A.N. Wilson's The Mind of the Apostl e
Main image © 2020 Curzon Artificial Eye
Last on
Portrait of a Lady On Fire
Cert 15
Image © 2020 Curzon Artificial Eye
Noughts and Crosses
Begins 5 March 2020
Image © Mammoth Screen
Photographer: Lize Kitshoff
Women Beware Women
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
The Globe
Until 18 April 2020
Image credit: Johan Persson
Damascus
Image © Zoe Ali
Léon Spilliaert
until 25 May 2020
Image: Woman at the Shoreline, 1910
Private collection
Photo: © Cedric Verhelst;
Broadcast
- Sat 29 Feb 2020 19:15Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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