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13/12/2014

With Treasure Island at the Olivier, Electricity starring Agyness Deyn, Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, Robert Olen Butler's book The Hot Country and a V&A dolls' house exhibition.

Treasure Island is The National Theatre's seasonal offering at The Olivier, full of pirates, parrots and seaspray. How does it play to the various audiences who come to the theatre at Christmas time?
Electricity is a film starring model turned actress Agyness Deyn whose character deals with her epilepsy as she tries to find a community to be a part of.
Charlie Brooker is back with a one-off feature-length Christmas special edition of Black Mirror on Channel 4. It's a worrying look at a future world that may be closer to our present world than we expect. It's guaranteed to inject some darkness into the joviality of Christmas
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Olen Butler's latest novel is The Hot Country; a historical thriller set in Mexico in 1914 with a hardbitten journalist as hero
The V+A has an exhibition of Dolls Houses - from 1670 to 2001. They're a world of wonder in miniature. How do they reflect the society of the children for whom they were made?

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Deborah Bull, Neil Brand and Misha Glenny. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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45 minutes

The Hot Country by Robert Olen Butler

published by Oldcastle

Electricity (15)

Electricity (15)
in cinemas from 12 December 2014

Treasure Island

Treasure Island

playing until 8 April 2015 at the Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, South Bank, London

Black Mirror: White Christmas

Black Mirror: White Christmas
on Channel 4 on 16th December 2014Ìý(9pm)

Small Stories: At home in a dolls’ house

Small Stories: At home in a dolls’ house

At the V&A Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9PA from 13 December 2014 – 6 September 2015

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Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest Deborah Bull
Interviewed Guest Neil Brand
Interviewed Guest Misha Glenny
Producer Oliver Jones

Broadcast

  • Sat 13 Dec 2014 19:15

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