August 03, 2019

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, Animals, Colson Whitehead, Olafur Eliasson, This Way Up

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47 minutes

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, Scenes From The Luddite Rebellion has just opened at Manchester Royal Exchange. Combining verbatim recreations and imagined encounters, it looks at Manchester and England at the beginning of industrialisation

Animals is a new film based on the novel by Emma Jane Unsworth. Two friends messily drift along and apart and back together in Dublin

Colson Whitehead's new novel The Nickel Boys fictionalises the true story of a reform institution in Florida where cruelty, abuse and violence were the norm

Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life is at Tate Modern in London - showing 27 years of the output of the Norwegian Icelandic artist

This Way Up is a new sitcom on Channel 4 starring Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Henry Hitchings, Patrice Lawrence and Jen Harvie. The producer is Oliver Jones

PodcastExtra recommendations:

Jen: Burgerz by Travis Alabanza Shit Theatre's Drink Rum with Expats, and Fair Fringe /Cost Of The Fringe/ Fringe of Colour

Henry: Jonathan Gibbs - The Large Door

Patrice: Anthony Joseph - Kitch and Sam Selvon- The Lonely Londoners

...more

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August 03, 2019

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, Animals, Colson Whitehead, Olafur Eliasson, This Way Up

Listen Later

47 minutes

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, Scenes From The Luddite Rebellion has just opened at Manchester Royal Exchange. Combining verbatim recreations and imagined encounters, it looks at Manchester and England at the beginning of industrialisation

Animals is a new film based on the novel by Emma Jane Unsworth. Two friends messily drift along and apart and back together in Dublin

Colson Whitehead's new novel The Nickel Boys fictionalises the true story of a reform institution in Florida where cruelty, abuse and violence were the norm

Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life is at Tate Modern in London - showing 27 years of the output of the Norwegian Icelandic artist

This Way Up is a new sitcom on Channel 4 starring Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Henry Hitchings, Patrice Lawrence and Jen Harvie. The producer is Oliver Jones

PodcastExtra recommendations:

Jen: Burgerz by Travis Alabanza Shit Theatre's Drink Rum with Expats, and Fair Fringe /Cost Of The Fringe/ Fringe of Colour

Henry: Jonathan Gibbs - The Large Door

Patrice: Anthony Joseph - Kitch and Sam Selvon- The Lonely Londoners

...more