Nancy Meyers, Jenny Erpenbeck, Literary modern classics, Turner Prize show
Romcom director and writer Nancy Meyers; Jenny Erpenbeck on her new novel Go, Went, Gone; what makes a literary modern classic; the 2017 Turner Prize exhibition in Hull.
Nancy Meyers has made her career making hugely popular romantic comedies such as The Holiday, It's Complicated and What Women Want. As her latest venture, Home Again, comes to cinemas we speak to Nancy Meyers about the rom-com and her career in Hollywood.
Last week, UK book publishers Bloomsbury launched their first 'Modern Classics' series, joining the likes of Picador, Faber & Faber and of course Penguin, who established their iconic series way back in 1961. But why are certain books deemed worthy of the label? And what exactly does the term mean in the first place? The curator of Bloomsbury's new series, Alison Hennessey, and literary critic Suzi Feay discuss what makes a modern classic.
The migration crisis was seen as a key factor in Germany's election results this weekend with the nationalist AfD party winning enough parliamentary seats to become the third-largest party in the Bundestag. Award-winning novelist Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Germany and she discusses her latest novel - Go, Went, Gone - which explores the crisis from the perspective of a recently-retired German professor based in East Berlin, who discovers that the transitions in his own life connect him in ways he had never imagined to the thousands seeking new lives in Germany.
With the Turner Prize scrapping its eligibility age limit of 50, the work of the four artists who've made the shortlist - two of whom are over 50 - goes on display this week. Critic Jonathan Jones casts an eye over the Turner Prize exhibition which this year takes place at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull for the first time.
Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
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Nancy Meyers
Duration: 08:47
Literary modern classics
Duration: 07:22
Jenny Erpenbeck
Duration: 05:42
Turner Prize show
Duration: 05:16
Nancy Meyers
is in UK cinemas from 29 September 2017, certificate 12A
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Main image above: Nancy Meyers,听 Image credit: Vera Anderson
Smaller image to the left: Nancy Meyers (Left) with Kirsty Lang
Literary modern classics
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Restless by William Boyd
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Micheals
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt.
They are all available in paperback.
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Jenny Erpenbeck
听 written by Jenny Erpenbeck and translated by Susan Bernofsky is published in paperback and as an ebook by Portobello Books on 26 September 2017.
Image: Jenny Erpenbeck
Image credit: Katharina Behling
Turner Prize show
Work by the听four artists shortlisted for the is on show at the Ferens Gallery, Hull from 26 September 2017 - 07 January 2018, as part of Culture.
Image from Left: Lubaina Himid, Hurvin Anderson, Andrea Buttner and Rosalind Nashashibi, the听four artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2017.
Image credit: James Mulkeen
The Turner Prize winner will be announced on 05 December 2017
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Role Contributor Interviewed Guest Nancy Meyers Interviewed Guest Alison Hennessey Interviewed Guest Suzi Feay Interviewed Guest Jenny Erpenbeck Interviewed Guest Jonathan Jones Presenter Kirsty Lang Producer Jerome Weatherald Broadcast
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