Saturday Review - 03/07/2010

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Louise Welsh, David Benedict and Natalie Haynes review the week's cultural highlights including Claire Denis's film White Material White Material is set in an unidentified West African country. Isabelle Huppert plays a French coffee planter who is determined to stay on her farm and get the harvest in despite the growing instability and danger around her. A West Country pub is the setting for Richard Francis's novel The Old Spring. The action unfolds over the course of a day and reveals secrets in the lives of the licencees, Frank and Dawn, and their customers. Douglas Henshall stars as homicide detective, Jim Edwards, in the four part BBC1 drama The Silence. His teenage niece, who is deaf, witnesses a murder and suddenly Jim finds his family and career in turmoil. A Light Song of Light is Kei Miller's third collection of poetry and is divided into two sections - Day Time and Night Time - the latter containing several poems about Jamaican superstitions and the charms to keep night dreads at bay. Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries is an exhibition at the National Gallery in London in which a light is shone on the murky world of fine art attribution and fakery and the techniques employed in sorting the real thing from imitations explained. Producer Torquil MacLeod.