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REVIEW: Film: The Critic, Exhibition: Van Gogh, Book: Garth Greenwell's Small Rain

Review: exhibition Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, film: The Critic, book: Small Rain by Garth Greenwell. Plus Paddy O'Connell reveals the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Short Story Award shortlist.

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by David Benedict and Catherine McCormack to review Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, the first exhibition the National Gallery has dedicated to the artist. They also discuss The Critic, which stars Ian McKellen as a fearsomely ruthless drama critic and Small Rain by Garth Greenwell, which focuses on the narrator's time and treatment in hospital after experiencing a sudden piercing pain.

Chair of Judges Paddy O'Connell reveals the shortlisted authors for the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Short Story Award 2024 with Cambridge University. The list includes Lucy Caldwell who talks about her short story Hamlet, a love story.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Claire Bartleet

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  • Thu 12 Sep 2024 19:15

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