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Free Thinking - Art Spiegelman. Marina Abramovic. American Pastoral.

Graphic novelist Art Spiegelman talks to Naomi Alderman about his collaboration with jazz musician Phillip Johnston. Philip Roth's novel is filmed by Ewan McGregor.

Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer prize-winning Maus - a father-son memoir about the Holocaust drawn with cats and mice - is one of the classics of graphic novels. He's now collaborating with the Jazz composer Phillip Johnston on a show that puts music alongside the images. Naomi Alderman talks to them and to the performance artist Marina Abramovic who's written a memoir. Plus Sarah Churchwell watches a film version of Philip Roth's American Pastoral which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Ewan McGregor directs and stars as a man whose life starts to fall apart as his daughter commits an act of political terrorism.

Wordless! Art Spiegelman + Phillip Johnston is at the Barbican in London on 11 November 2016 / 19:30
It's part of the London Jazz Festival. You can find more events on 成人快手 Radio 3 and on the 成人快手 Music Jazz pop-up station which will run from 10am on Thursday 10th November until 10am on Monday 14th November on digital radio, online and the iPlayer Radio app

Marina Abramovic's memoir is called Walk Through Walls.
American Pastoral is out in cinemas across the UK

Producer: Zahid Warley.

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