Podcasts Culture Front Row Rupert Goold on his film Judy, Kara Walker reviewed, Booker Book Group with Bernardine Evaristo

Rupert Goold on his film Judy, Kara Walker reviewed, Booker Book Group with Bernardine Evaristo

Published: Oct. 2, 2019, 6:53 p.m.

Director Rupert Goold discusses his new film Judy. Starring Ren\xe9e Zellweger as legendary singer Judy Garland, the movie examines the final year of the star's life when, despite struggling with ill health, she was forced to take a demanding five week gig at a London nightclub in order to pay her debts.

Kara Walker\u2019s 13 metre high statue is unveiled in Tate Modern\u2019s Turbine Hall today. Critic Asana Greenstreet reviews Fons Americanus which comments on British responsibility for slavery.

Bernardine Evaristo is the latest of our listener book groups where readers meet each of the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019. Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other is told in a poetic form with little punctuation and follows 12 characters, most of them black British women.

Presenter: Stig Abell\nProducer: Hannah Robins