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Rose Tremain; The Imitation Game; Wildefire; Allen Jones; Remember Me

Rose Tremain's The American Lover; Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game; Roy Williams' Wildefire; Allen Jones exhibition at RSA; Remember Me on 大象传媒1.

Rose Tremain's latest book is a collection of short stories called The American Lover; how does her shorter fiction compare to her full length work?
Benedict Cumberbatch plays the WWII cryptographer and code-breaker Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. Also starring Kiera Knightley, it tells the tale of the team of British maths geniuses who cracked the Nazi's Enigma Code. How successfully does it breathe new life into the biography of a private and secretive man?
Roy Williams' new play Wildefire, directed by Maria Aberg, opens at London's Hampstead Theatre. It deals with 'the precarious world of modern policing'; how does a good copper stay good when her world turns nasty?
British artist Allen Jones is probably best known for three works he created 45 years ago; Hat Stand, Table and Chair. A new exhibition at London's Royal Academy is a look back at his career - including pop art from the 60s, through figurative sculpture to his painted steel sculptures. But do accusations that his early work demeans women still hold sway in the more broadminded 21st century?
Michael Palin returns to a British TV series for the first time in 2 decades in Remember Me on 大象传媒1; a supernatural thriller set in Yorkshire - who is to blame for a series of mysterious deaths?

Razia Iqbal's guests are Elif Shafak, Patrick Gale and Miranda Carter. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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45 minutes

The Imitation Game (12A)

The Imitation Game (12A)

Is in cinemas from Friday 14 November
Directed by Morten Tyldum and starring Benedict Cumerbatch and Kiera Knightley聽

Allen Jones

聽Allen Jones
On at The Royal Academy of Arts from 13 November 2014 to 29 January 2015,聽

Wildefire

On at Hampstead Theatre, London from聽 6 November-29 November
Written by Roy Williams and directed by Maria Aberg

The American Lover

by Rose Tremain聽 and published by Random House聽

Remember Me

Remember Me
Ep 1 Sunday 23 November on 大象传媒1 at 9 pm
Starring Michael Palin, Mark Addy, Mina Anwar and Julia Sawalha聽

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Razia Iqbal
Interviewed Guest Elif Shafak
Interviewed Guest Patrick Gale
Interviewed Guest Miranda Carter
Producer Oliver Jones

Broadcast

  • Sat 15 Nov 2014 19:15

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