Playing Putin on stage in Patriots, DJ Taylor on Orwell, new V&A Photography Centre

Published: May 24, 2023, 7:34 p.m.

Patriots, Peter Morgan\u2019s play set in Russia in 1991, traces the rise and fall of Boris Berezovsky, who helped Vladimir Putin take power. As Patriots transfers to the West End, Allan Little \u2013 who as the BBC\u2019s Moscow correspondent met Berezovsky \u2013 talks to the director Rupert Goold and Will Keen, winner of an Olivier Award for his performance as Vladimir Putin. \n \nThe V&A Photography Centre opens this week, the largest suite of galleries in the UK dedicated to a permanent photography collection. Allan is joined by curator Marta Weiss and AI deep fake photographer Jake Elwes.

DJ Taylor won the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Biography for his first telling of George Orwell\u2019s life. He reveals why, twenty years later, he\u2019s returned to the subject with the publication of Orwell: The New Life.

Presenter: Allan Little\nProducer: Timothy Prosser