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Oct 2024
42m 41s

Review: Film: Joker Folie a Deux; Book: ...

Bbc Radio 4
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This week's big cinema release Joker: Folie a Deux is under scrutiny from Tom Sutcliffe's reviewers, broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika and film critic Tim Robey. They have also read Alan Hollinghurst's new novel Our Evenings. Gramophone Artist of the Year soprano Carolyn Sampson performs in the Front Row studio - and on National Poetry Day Tom and the critics pick their favourite poems.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Paula McGrath

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