MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Thinking outside the box
CALUM BARNES recommends an ingenious experiment in interactive TV
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
Bandersnatch
Directed by David Slade
STEFAN Butler, aspiring games programmer, is about to pitch his game idea for Bandersnatch, an adaptation of the Choose Your Own Adventure novel to upstart company Tuckersoft.
His Dad is serving him breakfast and asks him to make his mind up: “How about you decide what you want?” No sooner has he uttered this than the words Sugar Puffs and Frosties appear at the bottom of the screen.
It’s the precursor to us also choosing our own adventure in Charlie Brooker’s Bandersnatch, an admirably ambitious labour of love based on the video games of his youth.
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