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Review: The Last Showgirl, Oedipus, Nobel author Han Kang's novel We Do Not Part

Feb 6, 2025
42:21

Tom is joined by the writer and broadcaster Octavia Bright and the Observer's theatre critic Susannah Clapp to review another version of the Greek classic Oedipus, this time at the Old Vic in London and starring Rami Malek.

Also reviewed: The Last Showgirl, which has Pamela Anderson starring as Shelley with Jamie Lee Curtis as her good friend. Shelley's Vegas cabaret show is closing and the imminent change forces her to confront her life choices.

And: We Do Not Part, the new novel by Nobel Prize for Literature winner, the Korean writer Han Kang.

We also hear about the Japanese collaborative SANAA, founded by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, which has won the Royal Institute of British Architects' Royal Gold Medal for architecture, from Professor Sadie Morgan.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Corinna Jones

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