Pantomime: Professor Jeffrey Richards; Bryony Lavery; EO Wilson
Matthew Sweet and panto with Jeffrey Richards and actor/director Tony Lidington, Bryony Lavery between Treasure Island and 101 Dalmatians, biologist EO Wilson on the human miracle.
Matthew Sweet on Pantomime past to present writer Jeffrey Richards and actor/director Tony Lidington. Jeffrey Richards book is called The Golden Age of Pantomime: Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England.
Bryony Lavery talks stage writing ahead of her double-Christmas offerings of Treasure Island at the National Theatre in London and The One Hundred and One Dalmatians at Chichester's Festival Theatre.
American biologist EO Wilson puts humanity centre-stage in his new book The Meaning of Human Existence and explains why we'll never meet ET and gets ants to take a bow.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith
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Role Contributor Presenter Matthew Sweet Interviewed Guest Jeffrey Richards Interviewed Guest Tony Lidington Interviewed Guest EO Wilson Interviewed Guest Bryony Lavery Producer Jacqueline Smith Broadcast
- Wed 17 Dec 201422:00BBC Radio 3
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