Death of a Salesman, The Hustle, The Virtues, Mark Haddon, David Nash

The latest production at London's Young Vic Theatre is Death of a Salesman. It recasts the Lomans as an African-American family with Wendell Pierce as WIlly
Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway play female con artists in Chris Addison's directorial debut, The Hustle. It's a gender-swap reworking of 1988 comedy film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; but is it funny?
Shane Meadows has created a new 4 part drama for Channel 4: The Virtues, starring Stephen Graham as a traumatised young man who grows up and becomes a loving dad but can't quite let go of his past
Mark Haddon's new novel The Porpoise reworks Shakespeare's Pericles, weaving a contemporary story with the classic tale
An exhibition of David Nash sculptures in Cardiff is a look at a long career collaborating with nature to make predominantly wooden works.

Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Stephen Hough, Sarah Churchwell and Louise Doughty. The producer is Oliver Jones
Podcast Extra choices
Stephen: Chocolaterie Luc Van Hoorebeke in Ghent
Louise: The Author's Club Best First Novel Award
Sarah: Orson Welles' The Stranger