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Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer Rowan Pelling, poet Paul Farley and novelist Deborah Moggach review the week's cultural highlights.

Harold Pinter's 1978 play Betrayal tells the story of a love affair, starting two years after it has ended and travelling back to the moment when it began. In Ian Rickson's production at the Comedy Theatre in London Kristin Scott Thomas plays Emma, Ben Miles is her husband and Douglas Henshall her lover.

The visit of a young undergraduate poet to a suburban house in Middlesex in 1913 sets in motion the events of Alan Hollinghurst's novel The Stranger's Child. Over the course of nearly a century the reputation of both the poet and his most celebrated poem - written during that pre-war visit - are wrestled over and reappraised.

Kevin MacDonald's film Life In A Day was actually filmed by some of the 80,000 people from around the world who responded to his invitation to record a short video clip of what they were doing on 24th July 2010. The resulting 4,500 hours of footage was edited down to create this 95 minute film.

Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her performance in the 1945 film adaptation of James M Cain's novel Mildred Pierce. Now Kate Winslett is playing the title role in Todd Haynes's five part TV version (which is more faithful to Cain's book) about a California divorcee struggling to bring up her imperious daughter, Veda, during the Depression.

Although it was christened by Ezra Pound, Vorticism was a self-consciously British branch of Modernism, reacting to the Italian Futurists. The Tate Britain exhibition The Vorticists: Manifesto for the Modern World gathers together many of the works which appeared in the two shows the Vorticists put on before the movement fizzled out and includes work by Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier Brzeska.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod.