Rupert Goold on his film Judy, Kara Walker reviewed, Booker Book Group with Bernardine Evaristo
Director Rupert Goold on his Judy Garland biopic starring Ren茅e Zellweger, and Kara Walker's Turbine Hall installation reviewed.
Director Rupert Goold discusses his new film Judy. Starring Ren茅e Zellweger as legendary singer Judy Garland, the movie examines the final year of the star's life when, despite struggling with ill health, she was forced to take a demanding five week gig at a London nightclub in order to pay her debts.
Kara Walker鈥檚 13 metre high statue is unveiled in Tate Modern鈥檚 Turbine Hall today. Critic Asana Greenstreet reviews Fons Americanus which comments on British responsibility for slavery.
Bernardine Evaristo is the latest of our listener book groups where readers meet each of the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019. Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other is told in a poetic form with little punctuation and follows 12 characters, most of them black British women.
Presenter: Stig Abell
Producer: Hannah Robins
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Judy
Photo credit: Path茅
Judy聽is in cinemas from 2 Oct, cert 12A
Main image: Ren茅e Zellweger
Photo credit: Path茅
Kara Walker
Photo credit: Ari Marcopoulos
Kara Walker - Hyundai Commission聽Fons Americanus聽is at the 听耻苍迟颈濒
5 Apr 2020
Bernardine Evaristo
Her book聽Girl, Woman, Other is shortlisted for the
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