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Spectator Play: what’s worth watching, listening to or going to this weekend | 17 May 2013

It feels like the only film anyone’s been talking about recently is The Great Gatsby. Given that even the release of the films’ multiple trailers created international news stories, it seemed inevitable that not everyone was going to love it. So, what does Deborah Ross say to the film’s critics? ‘You can tell them to go hang’. Gatsby, she says, is ‘fantastically enjoyable, and a blast. It is wild and rampant and thrilling.’ So there you go – listen to our critic, not anyone else’s.

Desert Island Discs is one of Radio 4’s crowd-pullers but, as Kate Chisholm points out in this week’s radio review, the format ‘ is not best designed for conversational revelations or deep-seated insights’. Nevertheless, when Damian Hirst appeared on this week’s episode, it was hard to believe that there was nothing more ‘behind the dots, dead cows, sharks and maggots’ of his artwork.

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