Per Wastberg, Modern Masters, The Candidate, Heiner Goebbels
Presented by Anne McElvoy. With Nobel literature prize chair Per Wastberg, a review of Modern Masters, a BBC TV series on modern art, and Don Guttenplan on the film The Candidate.
On Night Waves - the Chair of the Nobel Prize for Literature has written his own novel. Anne McElvoy talks to Per Westberg about the natural world, South African Politics and the most famous prize in the world.
Christopher Frayling reviews BBC1's Modern Masters, a new series about Modern Art with bright young thing Alastair Sooke presenting. Will Alastair's take on Matisse, Warhol and Picasso impress the ex-rector of the Royal College of Art?
Rounding off Night Waves' election art series Don Guttenplan talks about the 1972 film The Candidate. Robert Redford stars as a political outsider who breaks into the race for the US Senate and suffers the pressure and compromises of approaching power.
Anne also interviews German composer Heiner Goebbels whose latest work dedicates Four Tableaux to four key 20th century literary texts by TS Eliot, Maurice Blanchot, Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett.
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