arts


Meadway and Hilary Wainwright among them – to explore how a bottom-up Labour campaign can beat the rising tide of right-wing populism. www.lwbooks.co.uk/book/ corbynism-from-below


Film


A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood In cinemas nationwide Based (loosely) on an encounter between award-winning US magazine writer Tom Junod and TV icon Fred Rogers, this film looks at how the cynical journalist’s perspective on life changes after begrudgingly accepting a commission to write an Esquire profile of the eternally positive Rogers. An example, perhaps, of how journalists’ work can change their own lives as well as those of others. www.abeautifulday. movie


Bombshell In cinemas nationwide from January 24 A-listers Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie star in this hard-hitting look at sexual allegations made against Fox News founder and CEO Roger Ailes, and how the company reacted to the scandal. Ailes resigned from Fox in 2016, receiving a £40m pay-off. He continued to advise Rupert Murdoch until his death the following year. https://bombshell.movie


Exhibitions


Turner Prize.19 Rendezvous, Margate Until January 12 Every other year, the Turner Prize leaves Tate Britain for a venue outside


Spotlight Strong words meet ferocious energy


Bristol-based band Idles wear their politics and their emotions on their sleeves. Whether it’s Danny


Nedelko, about immigration (“Fear leads to panic, panic


leads to pain, pain leads to anger, anger leads to hate”), feminist anthem Mother (“Men are scared women will laugh in their face, whereas women are scared it’s their lives men will take”), a


haunting tune about a stillborn child (“Baby shoes for sale, never worn”) or Samaritans about toxic masculinity (“This is why you never see your father cry”), they don’t hold back.


Fresh from a sold-out tour,


they’ve released their first live album, which captures their ferocious energy. “That tour was nothing


short of catharsis,” says singer Joe Talbot.


www.idlesband.com theJournalist | 21 Book A tribute to young lives lost in the Troubles


In Children of the Troubles, NUJ members Joe Duffy and Freya McClements reach across the Irish border and beyond to acknowledge and pay tribute to young lives lost. From the teenage striker who


scored two goals in a Belfast schools cup final, to the aspiring architect who promised to build his mother a house, to the five-year-old girl who wrote in her copy book on the day she died, “I am a good girl. I talk to God”, Children of the Troubles recounts the previously untold stories of Northern Ireland’s lost children and those who died in the Republic, the UK and as far afield as


West Germany — and the lives that might have been. Based on original interviews with


almost 100 families as well as extensive archival research, the book includes the stories of many children who have never been publicly acknowledged as victims of the Troubles, and draws a compelling social and cultural picture of the era. These children were much loved,


and are deeply mourned and will never be forgotten. Children of the Troubles describes itself as both an acknowledgement of and a tribute to young people who lost their lives.


Children of the Troubles is published by Hatchette. http://tinyurl.com/ y6ccpes4


London. Four exciting contemporary artists are shortlisted to win the prize, based on an outstanding exhibition from the previous year. This year’s finalists are Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and


Tai Shani. turnercontemporary.org/whats-on/ turner-prize-2019/


Among The Polar Ice The McManus, Dundee Until March 8 The most fragile landscapes on earth are the subject of this new exhibition, bringing together contemporary and historic works by artists who have experienced life on the ice. It features lantern slides, drawings and watercolour sketches by William Burn Murdoch, who accompanied William Spiers Bruce on the Dundee Antarctic


Whaling Expedition in 1892. www.mcmanus.co.uk/content/news/ among-polar-ice


Comedy Arabella Weir – Does My Mum Loom Big in This? On tour until April Described as “the mother of all confessional shows” from author, Independent and Guardian columnist and TV star, this show is for everyone who’s had a mother or been a mother. And, yes, the name is a reference to her book Does My Bum Look Big In This? www.berksnest.com/arabella-weir


Darren Harriott – Good Heart Yute On tour until February Darren Harriott is 30 years old, has never been in love and wants to know why. He’s embarking on a tour to learn more about himself – and to


discover if he actually likes himself. https://darrenharriott.com


Theatre Be More Chill The Other Palace From February 12 This musical splashes into London after making waves in Broadway. An atypical love story about a guy, a girl and the supercomputer in the guy’s head, it claims to be full of addictive earworms. www.bemorechillmusical.com


Drama at Inish Abbey Theatre, Dublin Until January 24 Director Cal McCrystal brings this 1933 comedy to the Abbey Theatre. A small seaside town in Ireland hits the headlines after the De La Mare Repertory Theatre Company arrives. http://tinyurl.com/y2d7rtep


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