Radio Times: Review by:; David Butcher

The cultural hotpot is boiling over. Arts A-listers from musical comedian Tim Minchin and Hollywood director William Friedkin to novelist Richard Ford are on call to give us a taste of their latest projects, and there’s still room in the stew for Hot Chip and Monet.

The standout ingredient as ever is Andrew Graham-Dixon, who heads to Tate Liverpool to tee up an exhibition of later works from Turner, Monet and Twombly, and he does so in the company of sage comic Alexei Sayle.

Interviewing French Connection director Friedkin about his new, blackly comic film will be superfan Mark Kermode. And oddball electronic band Hot Chip unveil their theme music for the London Olympics table tennis tournament.

About this programme

Mark Kermode talks to Exorcist director William Friedkin about his new film Killer Joe, while Alexei Sayle joins Andrew Graham-Dixon at Tate Liverpool to view an exhibition of later works by JMW Turner, Claude Monet and the American painter Cy Twombly. Miranda Sawyer interviews Tim Minchin about Matilda, musicals and megalomania, James Runcie discusses with author Richard Ford the border between the ordinary and the criminal in his new novel Canada, and there is an extract from a restored print of Alfred Hitchcock's debut feature film, with live music composed by Daniel Patrick Cohen.