Saturday Review - 07/08/2010

Sarfraz Manzoor and his guests novelist Deborah Moggach, theatre writer David Benedict and comedian Natalie Haynes review the week's cultural highlights including Knight and Day Earthquakes in London is Mike Bartlett's new play at the National Theatre in London. Directed by Rupert Goold its action takes place between 1968 and 2525 and it address the perils of climate change. Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz star in the film Knight and Day. Cruise plays a rogue agent doing his best to stop a groundbreaking perpetual energy source falling into the wrong hands Nigerian author Helon Habila's new novel Oil on Water concerns a journalist trying to track down a kidnapped woman in the oil rich swamps of the Niger Delta Pete Versus Life is a sitcom on Channel 4 in which Rafe Spall plays a hapless sports reporter whose blundering life is commented on by a pair of sports commentators I Don't Get......It's A Wonderful Life. David Benedict explains why, for him, Frank Capra's classic 1947 film starring James Stewart is a chilling hymn to anti-individualism rather than a heartwarming tearjerker Producer: Torquil MacLeod.