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On Body And Soul, Our Town, Jennifer Egan, Basquiat, The Deuce

On Body and Soul, Berlin's Golden Bear winner for 2017, Our Town at Manchester's Royal Exchange, Jennifer Egan's Manhattan Beach, Basquiat at The Barbican, and HBO TV's The Deuce.

This year's Golden Bear winning film On Body And Soul is a peculiar love story between two social misfits who work at a Hungarian abattoir
A revival of Thornton Wilder's most-performed play Our Town at Manchester's Royal Exchange resets it to reflect the local audience
Jennifer Egan's follow up to her multi prize-winning A Visit From The Goon Squad is Manhattan Beach. Set in the docks of New York during wartime, Egan has described it as "a fairly straightforward, noirish thriller". Will our panel be more effulgent?
A major new exhibition of the work of the late street artist Jean-Michel Basquiat has opened at London's Barbican Centre; was he warmly or suffocatingly embraced by New York's hungry art scene in the 1980s?
HBO TV's new series The Deuce begins on Sky Atlantic

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Tom Sutclidffe's guests are Natalie Haynes, Arifa Akbar and Peter Kemp. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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Sat 23 Sep 2017 19:15

Our Town

Our Town

is at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester until 14 October 2018

Image: Stephen King聽

On Body and Soul

On Body and Soul

On Body and Soul is in cinemas now, certificate 18

Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan

is available in hardback and ebook from 3 October

Basquiat: Boom for Real

Basquiat: Boom for Real

is at the Barbican in London until 28 January 2018

Photo: Basquiat, 1981 漏 Edo Bertoglio, courtesy of Maripol. Artwork: 漏 The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat.聽

The Deuce

The Deuce

begins on Sky Atlantic at 10pm on Tuesday 26 September

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Presenter Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest Natalie Haynes
Interviewed Guest Arifa Akbar
Interviewed Guest Peter Kemp
Producer Oliver Jones

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