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Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Women Beware Women, Christos Tsiolkas, Leon Spilliaert, Noughts and Crosses

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Women Beware Women at The Globe Theatre, Christos Tsiolkas - Damascus, Leon Spilliaert at Royal Academy, Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses on TV

The newest film by French director Céline Sciamma (Tomboy, Girlhood) is Portrait Of A Lady On Fire. An 18th century painter is commissioned to paint a bride-to-be's wedding portrait and falls in love with her subject
Women Beware Women is a play by Middleton just opened at The Globe Theatre in London. How do you navigate a society in which women are consciously and unconsciously commodified, coerced and controlled?
Australian author Christos Tsiolkas came to international attention with his best-selling novel The Slap. His latest - Damascus - retells the story of St Paul's conversion.
Leon Spilliaert was a Belgian painter in the early 20th century whose work often reflected his insomnia and seaside settings. A new exhibition at London's Royal Academy brings this lesser-known artist into the spotlight
Malorie Blackman's successful Noughts and Crosses novels have been adapted for TV and they're coming to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½1 at the beginning of March

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Sathnam Sanghera, Muriel Zhaga and Susan Jeffreys. The producer is Oliver Jones

Podcast Extra recommendations:
Sathnam - Jay-Z on Spotify
Susan - Choirs and singing by candlelight
Muriel - making Delia Smith's marmalade and rewatching Friends
Tom - A.N. Wilson's The Mind of the Apostl e

Main image © 2020 Curzon Artificial Eye

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49 minutes

Portrait of a Lady On Fire

Portrait of a Lady On Fire
In cinemas 28 February
Cert 15
Image © 2020 Curzon Artificial Eye

Noughts and Crosses

Noughts and Crosses
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One
Begins 5 March 2020
Image © Mammoth Screen
Photographer: Lize Kitshoff

Women Beware Women

Women Beware Women
Written by Thomas Middleton
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
The Globe
Until 18 April 2020
Image credit: Johan Persson

Damascus

Damascus
By Christos Tsiolkas
Image © Zoe Ali

Léon Spilliaert

Léon Spilliaert
Royal Academy of Arts
until 25 May 2020
Image: Woman at the Shoreline, 1910
Private collection
Photo: © Cedric Verhelst;

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  • Sat 29 Feb 2020 19:15

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