54 min

Hilary Mantel, The Mikvah Project, Sulphur and White, Among The Trees Saturday Review

    • Society & Culture

Hilary Mantel's new novel - The Mirror and The Light - is the final part of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. The previous two parts have sold millions of copies worldwide and garned prizes from all quarters. Can this one compare?
The Mikvah Project is a new play at The Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. Two Jewish men meet every Friday for ritual cleansing and a close friendship develops.
Sulphur and White is a new British film which tells the true story of a highly successful banker who suffered repeated sexual abuse as a child and how this drove him to seek justice for all abused children
A new exhibition at The Hayward Gallery in London - Among The Trees - looks at the crucuial role that trees play in our lives and imaginations
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Christopher Frayling, Abigail Morris and Catherine O'Flynn. The producer is Oliver Jones
Podcast Extra recommendations:
Catherine - The National Telephone Kiosk Collection in Bromsgrove and the 1972 film La Cabina
Christopher - Who's Afaid of Virginia Woolf at The Tobacco Factory in Bristol and Prints by Norman Ackroyd at Watts Gallery near Guildford
Abigail - Carravagio in Rome and Bonus Family on Netflix
Tom - English Monsters by James Scudamore
Main image: Terraza Alta II, 2018 by Abel Rodríguez
Acrylic and ink on paper
© the artist and Instituto de Visión 2020

Hilary Mantel's new novel - The Mirror and The Light - is the final part of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. The previous two parts have sold millions of copies worldwide and garned prizes from all quarters. Can this one compare?
The Mikvah Project is a new play at The Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. Two Jewish men meet every Friday for ritual cleansing and a close friendship develops.
Sulphur and White is a new British film which tells the true story of a highly successful banker who suffered repeated sexual abuse as a child and how this drove him to seek justice for all abused children
A new exhibition at The Hayward Gallery in London - Among The Trees - looks at the crucuial role that trees play in our lives and imaginations
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Christopher Frayling, Abigail Morris and Catherine O'Flynn. The producer is Oliver Jones
Podcast Extra recommendations:
Catherine - The National Telephone Kiosk Collection in Bromsgrove and the 1972 film La Cabina
Christopher - Who's Afaid of Virginia Woolf at The Tobacco Factory in Bristol and Prints by Norman Ackroyd at Watts Gallery near Guildford
Abigail - Carravagio in Rome and Bonus Family on Netflix
Tom - English Monsters by James Scudamore
Main image: Terraza Alta II, 2018 by Abel Rodríguez
Acrylic and ink on paper
© the artist and Instituto de Visión 2020

54 min

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