Saturday Review - 31/07/2010

Sarfraz Manzoor and his guests writer Paul Morley, historian Kathryn Hughes and poet Cahal Dallat review the week's cultural highlights including Gainsbourg The film Gainsbourg marks Joann Sfar's directorial debut and stars Eric Elmosnino as legendary French singer Serge Gainsbourg. Along with the music and liaisons with Brigitte Bardot, Juliette Greco and Jane Birkin, there's also a big-nosed, long-fingered alter-ego representing Gainsbourg's darker side. Heinrich von Kleist's play The Prince of Homburg has been rewritten by Dennis Kelly and is being performed at the Donmar Warehouse in London. The Prince finds himself condemned to death when he inadvertently disobeys a military order, even though his action results in victory. Tom McCarthy's novel C follows the life of Serge Carrefax, born into a world at the turn of the 20th century in which communications technology is taking its first tentative steps towards global expansion. Serge and this technology are closely linked from the very begining. The Deep is a five part BBC 1 series starring James Nesbitt, Minnie Driver and Goran Visnjic. They are members of the crew of a submarine sent to research microorganisms on the bed of the Arctic Ocean, but when they get there they find that they're not alone... Adam Cullen is the self-styled 'bad boy' of Australian art. His first UK exhibition - Iron Mask: The Ned Kelly Series - is at the Black Rat Gallery in London and features paintings inspired by Kelly and his gang. Producer: Torquil MacLeod.