Saturday Review - 14/08/2010

Sarfraz Manzoor and guests novelist Malorie Blackman, historian Dominic Sandbrook and actor Kerry Shale review the week's cultural highlights including The Secret in Their Eyes. Argentinian director Juan Jose Campanella's film The Secret in Their Eyes won the 2010 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. It tells the story of a retired criminal court prosecutor who is trying to write a novel about a murder case that still haunts him after 25 years. Whoopi Goldberg has flown to the UK to make her West End stage debut in the musical Sister Act at the London Palladium. She plays the Mother Superior who agrees to take a lounge singer who is on the run from the Mob into her convent. Jess Walter's novel The Financial Lives of the Poets is set against the background of the global economic meltdown. Matt Prior is a business journalist who throws in his day job to set up a poetry and financial advice website which flops. He then tries to dig himself out of his personal economic crisis by becoming a drug dealer. Vexed is a comedy drama on BBC2 which stars Toby Stephens and Lucy Punch as Jack and Kate - a mismatched pair of police detectives. Jack' s insensitivity is matched only by his incompetence and lack of concern for police protocol, while Kate tries to keep things professional and hold her imploding marriage together. Locate is a collection of three installations at the Jerwood Space in London, curated by Sarah Williams. It features a video installation by Mel Brimfield, a sound piece by Aura Satz and a series of photographs relating to a notorious art forger by Sarah Pickering. Producer: Torquil MacLeod.