Change to tonight's programme
There's been a mix up in the information for tonight's show in many listings magazines and websites. We will be showing an item on the US TV series The Wire next week rather than tonight, while we are talking to artist Steve McQueen about his exhibition Queen and Country, and his film about hunger striker Bobby Sands, in tonight's show.
Queen and Country is on display at the Barbican in London until the end of July, and in an example of imaginative programming it provides a counterpoint to Gregory Burke's play Black Watch, also at the Barbican. Both works look at the experience of British soldiers in Iraq. McQueen's exhibition commemorates soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq with facsimile stamps, and in the process calls into question how we are valuing the contribution of these men and women. Black Watch examines our relationship with the army in a complementary way, reflecting on the experience of service personnel both in Iraq and at home. I wrote about the play here a couple of weeks ago.
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