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Essay collections from novelists and poets. Review of TV series Bloods, New Pokemon Snap explored

Novelist Rachel Kushner and poet Kei Miller on working in the essay form. Review of Sky TV's Bloods, a sitcom based in a South London ambulance service. Pokemon Snap explained.

This year sees a number of writers we know primarily as poets or novelists releasing collections of essays - from Jeanette Winterson to Lucy Ellman and Karl Ove Knausgaard. Tom talks to two of them: Kei Miller, whose latest collection is called Things I have Withheld, and Rachel Kushner, whose new collection is called The Hard Crowd.

Dreda Say Mitchell reviews new Sky TV series, Bloods. Samson Kayo and Jane Horrocks star in this six-part comedy series as paramedic partners in the South London ambulance service. When tough-acting loner Maleek is paired with over-friendly divorcee Wendy, their partnership looks dead on arrival. But before long they鈥檙e acting as each other鈥檚 life support. An ensemble comedy, set within the fast-paced, never-ending rush of 999 call-outs, Bloods also stars Adrian Scarborough, Lucy Punch and Julian Barratt.

Writer and video games editor Jordan Erica Webber talks us through the long-awaited New Pokemon Snap. The original game came out in 1999 on the Nintendo 64. Now, its release comes after a huge wave of lockdown sales of the Nintendo Switch gaming device and as part of a new wave of games focussing on gentler storytelling, photography and the natural environment.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Oliver Jones

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Essays

Rachel Kushner's collection of essays聽The Hard Crowd is out now
Kei Miller's collection of essays Things I Have Withheld is out now

Main image: Rachel Kushner
Photo credit: Chloe Aftel

Games

Pokemon Snap is out now

Bloods

Bloods听产别驳颈苍蝉聽on Sky from 5 May

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  • Tue 4 May 2021 19:15

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