Tom Loosemore
Wednesday 12 December 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Philip Dodd meets Tom Loosemore, one of the leading British thinkers on the internet, to discuss Distributed Genius, the delicate ecosystem which Loosemore believes lies behind the net and which we must defend against fatal but well-meaning outside interference at all costs.
Film critic Nigel Floyd joins Philip to review Youth Without Youth, the first film in ten years from Francis Ford Coppola, the director who transformed contemporary Hollywood through films such as the Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now.
Youth Without Youth
Professor Stanciulescu (Bruno Ganz) and Dominic Mattei (Tim Roth) discuss Dominic's recovery in Francis Ford Coppola's latest film, Youth Without Youth.
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Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola is one of cinema's giants, but his greatest work - the Godfather films and Apocalypse Now - were made thirty years ago. And he hasn't made a movie for a decade.
So why has he started making films again - and doing so in the manner of a twenty something auteur? And what does this late flowering tell us about Coppola's generation of cinematic rebels?
Film critic Nigel Floyd joins Philip to review Youth Without Youth, the first film in ten years from Francis Ford Coppola, the director of the Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now.
Youth without Youth is released December 14th, certificate 15.
Free Thinking- Tom Loosemore
There's the latest highlight from Radio 3's Festival of Free Thinking, which took place in Liverpool last month.
Tom Loosemore, a leading thinker on the media in the digital age, discusses the fragility of the internet - and argues that anything which abuses its culture of openness risks 'breaking' the net.
Find out more information about the Free Thinking broadcasts from the Free Thinking 2007 website.
North Korea and Classical Music
The New York Philharmonic this week announced that nuclear disarmament deadlines notwithstanding, the orchestra will be travelling to North Korea next February to perform a concert; a form of cultural olive branch being offered to Pyongyang.
Night Waves asks the ethnomusicologist and Korea specialist Professor Keith Howard of SOAS about the relationship between North Korea and the Western classical music tradition: why take classical music there at all?
Animals and Humans
In the last week an artist who has filmed himself dressed as a bear won the Turner Prize. And scientists announced that chimpanzees had outperformed humans at a cognitive task for the first time.
We're as fascinated as we ever were by the animality of humans and the humanity of animals. But from where does our enduring fascination with the blurred divide between man and beast stem?
The art historian Martin Kemp joins Philip to report on the fruits of his explorations into the strange world of freak shows, feral children and lateral-thinking pigs.
