Saturday Review

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests poet Craig Raine, historian Kathryn Hughes and writer David Aaronovitch review the week's cultural highlights including Tamara Drewe

Tamara Drewe is a film adaptation of a comic strip by Posy Simmonds, directed by Stephen Frears. Tamara is a newspaper columnist who causes chaos at a writer's retreat when she returns to the Dorset village where she grew up.

John le Carre has published his 22nd novel - Our Kind of Traitor - which concerns a young British couple who get mixed up with a notorious Russian money-launderer while on holiday in the Caribbean.

Lebanese born playwright Wajdi Mouawad has written a series of four plays about war and its aftershocks. The second of these - Scorched - is currently being staged in the Old Vic Arches in London.

Michael Sheen stars as Tony Blair in Peter Morgan's BBC2 drama The Special Relationship which charts the relationship between Blair and Bill Clinton from the time when Tony entered 10 Downing Street to Bill's departure from the White House.

Eadweard Muybridge was a photographic pioneer who progressed from landscape studies of Yosemite to experimental exposures which proved that horses lift all four hooves off the ground when they gallop. An exhibition at Tate Britain catalogue's his extraordinary career.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod.

Tom Sutcliffe's guests this week are writers Iain Sinclair and Vesna Maric, and the art critic Bill Feaver. Under Saturday Review's critical lens are:

Tiny Kushner - a cycle of mini-plays by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner at the Tricycle Theatre in London

Walking to Hollywood - Will Self's new triptych of novellas

This Is England '86 - a new four part TV series by the director Shane Meadows, which revisits the lives of characters from his film This Is England, three years on.

Certified Copy - a new film from Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, centring around a mysterious couple (played by Juliette Binoche and William Shimmell) who might - or might not - be married.

And: Resonance and Renewal: Shipbuilding on the Clyde - an exhibition of the eight vast canvases created by artist Stanley Spencer to depict the wartime life of the Lithgow Shipyard in Glasgow, whose workings he was commissioned to document during World War Two.

Producer Laura Thomas.