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Jun 2022
42m 27s

Reviews of the film All My Friends Hate ...

Bbc Radio 4
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On our Thursday review panel this week: the film critic Leila Latif and Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge, review the British comedy horror film All My Friends Hate Me, directed by Andrew Gaynord and Howard Brenton's play Cancelling Socrates, directed by Tom Littler at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London.

And the last of our author interviews with the writers shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest, whose novel The Book of Form and Emptiness is the story of Benny, a teenager in the US who finds that objects are starting to talk to him.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Sarah Johnson

Image: The cast of All My Friends Hate Me Credit: BFI Distribution

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