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Staging Antony Gormley, Dolly Wells, The Politician

How the Royal Academy was shored up to host the tonnage of Antony Gormley's new exhibition; Netflix's The Politician reviewed; and actor and writer Dolly Wells.

Antony Gormley鈥檚 new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London features a series of new artworks which are monumental in size, scale and weight, from a 5000kg suspended piece of iron to a gallery flooded with 33,000 litres of seawater, weighing 56 tons. Idoya Beitia, the Royal Academy鈥檚 Head of Exhibitions Management, discusses the greatest logistical challenge the gallery鈥檚 ever faced.

From Ryan Murphy, the creator of Glee, Nip/Tuck and Pose, now comes The Politician. Karen Krizanovich reviews the Netflix drama, set in a super-rich California, which follows Payton Hobart in his ambition to become US President, but first he must win his High School election where all the candidates will do anything to win. The show stars Dear Evan Hansen鈥檚 Ben Platt alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Bette Midler.

Actor and writer Dolly Wells discusses directing her first feature film Good Posture, and working with her long-time collaborator and best friend Emily Mortimer, with whom she also made the hit HBO TV series Doll & Em.

Presenter John Wilson
Producer Jerome Weatherald

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The Politician

The Politician
Ben Platt
Photo credit: Adam Rose

The Politician streams聽on Netflix from 27 Sept

Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley
Idoya Beitia and
John Wilson

The Antony Gormley exhibition is at the until 3 Dec

Main image: John Wilson at the exhibition

Good Posture

Good Posture
Grace Van Patten
Photo credit:聽
Tribeca Film Festival

Good Posture is in a wide selection of cinemas, cert 15

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