Tom Sutcliffe and his guests the writers Susan Jeffreys and Jim White and the writer and broadcaster John Tusa review the week's cultural highlights including the film Shame

Steve McQueen's film Shame stars Michael Fassbender as Brandon - a Manhattan businessman who appears to be in control of his life, but who has no control over his compulsive need for sex and pornography.

The Art of Fielding is Chad Harbach's first novel, set in the world of college baseball. A rising young star makes an entirely uncharacteristic error during a game, which has profound consequences for him and for many of those around him.

Michael Morpurgo's novel War Horse has already been adapted - very successfully - for the stage. Now Steven Spielberg has brought it to the big screen with a screenplay by Richard Curtis. Many horses were used - but none of them harmed - in the making of this film.

Just over twenty years ago John Keane was appointed official war artist for the first Gulf War. He has continued to deal with conflict in his paintings and his latest exhibition - Scratching the Surface, Joining the Dots - at Flowers Central in London includes images of Tony Blair's appearance at the Chilcot enquiry and protestors in Tahrir Square.

Cranford writer Heidi Thomas has adapted Jennifer Worth's best-selling novels about her experiences as a midwife in the 1950s for a new BBC drama series - Call The Midwife. It stars Jessica Raine as Jennifer, a young and inexperienced midwife who faces a steep learning curve when she arrives in the very unfamiliar world of London's East End.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod.