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Medea, Jeanette Winterson, The Martian, Edmund deWaal's White at the RA, TV crime series

The week's cultural highlights, including Medea at London's Almeida, Edmund de Waal's exhibition at the Royal Academy and Jeanette Winterson's The Gap of Time.

Medea is the latest production in London's Almeida Theatre's Greek season. Written by Rachel Cusk it portrays Medea as a realist and a moralist not a maniac.
The writer Edmund deWaal's interest in porcelain can be seen in an exhibition "White", at London's Royal Academy Library
Jeanette Winterson's latest novel The Gap of Time retells Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, setting it in the modern day.
Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars in The Martian: how do you cope with life millions of miles from any other human being? And as 2 new TV crime series begin - Unforgotten and From Darkness - we consider the enduring appeal of police detective dramas.

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Iwona Blazwick, Don Guttenplan and Sarah Churchwell. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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45 minutes

FILM: The Martian (12a)

FILM: The Martian (12a)
On general release throughout the UK

EXHIBITION: White curated by Edmund deWaal

EXHIBITION: White curated by Edmund deWaal
At the , Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD
Until 3 January 2016

Image credit:
Johann Friedrich B枚ttger, Two handled beaker, Meissen, Germany, c.1720. 聽Porcelain from the collection of Edmund De Waal
Photographer: Ian Skelton

Main image credit:
The Hare with Amber Eyes 聽- attributed to Sawaki Rizo Masatoshi from the collection of Edmund de Waal 聽
Photographer: Michael Harvey

BOOK: The Gap of Time

by Jeanette Winterson (Hogarth)

THEATRE: Medea

THEATRE: Medea
At the 聽Almeida St, London N1 1TA 聽
Until 14 November 2015

Image credit:聽Cast of Medea at the Almeida Theatre. Credit Marc Brenner

TV: ITV1 - Unforgotten

TV: ITV1 - Unforgotten
starting on Thursday 8 October at 9 pm聽

TV: 大象传媒 One - From Darkness

TV: 大象传媒 One - From Darkness
starting on at 9 pm

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest Iwona Blazwick
Interviewed Guest Don Guttenplan
Interviewed Guest Sarah Churchwell
Producer Olivia Jones

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  • Sat 3 Oct 2015 19:15

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