Knife is Salman Rushdie’s memoir about surviving a near-fatal knife attack in August 2022 and the long, painful period of recovery that followed.
Ben Power’s adaption of the Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend – London Tide – which features songs that he co-wrote with PJ Harvey, has just opened at the National Theatre in London.
Baby Reindeer is a new Netflix drama written by and starring Richard Gadd who drew directly on his own shocking experience of being stalked.
All three are reviewed by Tahmima Anam and John Mullan.
We also hear from tenor Ian Bostridge on mobile phone use in concert halls and why he stopped a performance of Britten's Les Illuminations with the CBSO last night.
Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Corinna Jones
Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Jeremy Deller, Scarborough Spa Orchestra
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Marc Quinn at Kew, The Fall Guy,
Spirited Away at London Coliseum, Eurovision build-up, terminal diagnosis films
Michelangelo exhibition at British Museum, Jembaa Groove perform, Inside Number 9
Hanif Kureishi, Ingrid Persaud, Arts Council funding
Pet Shop Boys, review of Challengers film and Expressionists exhibiition
The Legend of Ned Ludd, Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, Mohammad Barrangi
Women and Shakespeare, best beach reads, Black British music exhibition
Designer Sir Kenneth Grange, Taylor Swift's new album, Venice Art Biennale
Lionel Shriver's new book Mania, Tyrell Williams on Red Pitch
Sir John Akomfrah, bicentenary of Byron's death and sped-up music
The Book of Clarence, Liberation Squares, Northern Ireland's filming boom
Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black and Percival Everett's James reviewed
Folk musician Martin Simpson, movie icon Anna May Wong, and classical music leaders criticise Arts Council England
Nathan Hill, Maggie Rogers, International Booker shortlist
Yinka Shonibare, Sean Shibe, cinema and digital decay
Beyonce’s new album Cowboy Carter, Netflix drama Ripley, Io Capitano movie reviewed
50 years of ABBA’s Waterloo, Harewood House exhibition, Trevor Griffiths remembered, the rise of eco fiction and drama
Dev Patel on Monkey Man, which books are on the curriculum?
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