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The Nest is the new Sunday night drama on BBC One that raises questions around the ethics of surrogacy as a wealthy couple invite a young woman whose past is not known to them into their lives.The Truth is a French/Japanese production directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda who won the Pal ...  Show more

Misbehaviour is a new film about the 1970 Miss World pageant which saw the first black Miss World and was also disrupted by the nascent Women's Liberation movement who threw flour bombs at host Bob Hope Sebastian Barry's play On Blueberry Hill is set in a prison cell where two me ...  Show more

This week, Damon Galgut praises Diane Oliver's exceptional short stories, newly published over half a century after her death; and Rosemary Waugh on theatre director Yaël Farber's visceral engagement with Shakespearean tragedy.'Neighbors and Other Stories', by Diane Oliver'King L ...  Show more

Tom is joined by reviewers Kate Maltby and Stephanie Merritt to discuss Laura Wade's adaptation for the RSC of Somerset Maugham's comedy The Constant Wife. Also Wendy Erskine's Belfast -set novel; The Benefactors. A polyphonic telling of a teenage girl's assault and its aftermath ...  Show more

Kirsty reviews the new film The Fault in Our Stars, adapted from John Green's best-selling young adult novel and speaks to Peter Brook, whose new play In the Valley of Astonishment explores the sensory condition synaesthesia. Also tonight debut novelist and director of creative w ...  Show more

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Bidisha Mamata and Ben Luke who will be offering their verdicts on body horror film The Substance staring Demi Moore, a major new Michael Craig-Martin exhibition at the Royal Academy in London and The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Nobel priz ...  Show more