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Thriller writer Karin Slaughter on adapting her novel, The Good Daughter, for TV

NOV 10, 202642 MIN

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Bestselling US thriller writer Karin Slaughter talks to Tom Sutcliffe about adapting her novel The Good Daughter for the screen. Set and filmed in her native Georgia, the series focuses on two sisters played by Oscar-nominated actor Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy, with Brendan Gleeson as their defence lawyer father. A new exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich explores the kiss in art. How has it been depicted and what does that tell us about the changes in society. Its curator John Kenneth Paranada and art historian Katy Hessel discuss why it's obsessed artists for so long. A few days ago a US court gave the go-ahead for Michael Crichton's widow to pursue a lawsuit against Warner Brothers Television, on the grounds that the Emmy winning series The Pitt was, in effect, an unlicenced spin off of the hugely successful series E.R, originally created by Michael Crichton. Joining Tom to talk about what happened and hospital dramas is the Guardian's television critic Lucy Mangan. Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski talks about his latest film Fatherland, for which he won Best Director at Cannes earlier this year. It explores the celebrated German writer and Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann's postwar return from exile in the US and his controversial tour of East and West Germany. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Andrea Kidd