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Pan, Titian to Canaletto, Lisa Genova, Marcus Gardley

New film Pan reviewed, Titian to Canaletto: Drawing in Venice, Lisa Genova on her new novel Inside the O'Briens, and dramatist Marcus Gardley on A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes.

Hugh Jackman stars as Blackbeard in Pan, a new adaptation of J.M. Barrie's story of the boy who never grew up. Mark Eccleston reviews the film which also features Cara Delevingne and Rooney Mara.

A new exhibition Titian to Canaletto: Drawing in Venice focuses on the overlooked element of Venetian art from 1500 to 1750 which opens today at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University, assesses the works on display.

Lisa Genova, a trained neuroscientist and author of Still Alice which explored early-onset Alzheimer's, discusses her new novel Inside The O'Briens, in which the head of the family discovers he has Huntington's Disease. The writer reveals why she believes she can achieve more in that field by writing novels than she did in the lab.

A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes is a theatrical reworking of Moliere's satire Tartuffe, transplanted to present-day Atlanta, Georgia. It's a comedy set in a world of guns, fast-food tycoons and black churches. The dramatist Marcus Gardley, whose father was a pastor and whose uncle a founder of the Black Panthers, discusses his adaptation.

Presenter Samira Ahmed
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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30 minutes

Chapters

  • Lisa Genova

    Duration: 08:44

  • Pan

    Duration: 05:12

  • Titian to Canaletto

    Duration: 05:12

  • Marcus Gardley

    Duration: 08:42

Lisa Genova

Lisa Genova

Inside The O’Briens is available in paperback and ebook now.

Pan

Pan

is in cinemas from Friday 16 October certificate PG.Ìý

Image: ©2015 Warner Bros. Entertainment inc. and Ratpac-Dune Entertainment LLC

Drawing in Venice

Drawing in Venice

is at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford until 10 January 2016.

ÌýLeft - Tiziano Vecellio, known as TitianÌý (c.1485-90‒1576) - A Horse and Rider falling. © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.

Right: Jenny Saville - Pastel Bodies, 2014. © Jenny Saville. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Private Collection

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A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes

A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes

is showing at the Tricycle Theatre in London until 14 November 2015.

Photo by Mark Douet

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest Mark Eccleston
Interviewed Guest Martin Kemp
Interviewed Guest Lisa Genova
Interviewed Guest Marcus Gardley
Producer Jerome Weatherald

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