Hanif Kureishi
Wednesday 27 February 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Kenan Malik talks to Hanif Kureishi about Something to Tell You, his new novel in which a psychologist looks back on his youth in 1970s London suburbia, a background similar to Kureishi's own.
Plus one of Germany's leading and most innovative theatre directors Thomas Ostermeier, whose radical updating of Henrick Isben's Hedda Gabbler is about to open in Britain.
Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi
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Hanif Kureishi
On Night Waves, Hanif Kureishi - the author of The Buddha of Suburbia and Intimacy - joins Kenan Malik to discuss his new novel Something to Tell You about a half-Indian psychoanalyst struggling with marital break-up, a guilty secret and a mid-life crisis.
Something to Tell You is published by Faber and Faber
Mad Men
The latest Golden Globe winning drama from America is Mad Men, a story of sex and intrigue set in the cut throat world of Advertising in 1960s Manhattan. The dramatist Fay Weldon, who in the 60s was herself coining ad slogans such as "Go to work on an Egg", joins Night Waves to discuss the 13 part series ahead of its airing on BBC Four
Mad Men begins on BBC 4 on Sunday 2nd March at 10pm
Drinking
As the government and supermarkets wage a campaign against excessive drinking, Kenan is joined James Kneale from University College London and by writer Fergus Linnane whose book 'Drinking for England' explores the social history of drinking by comparing the current moral panic to Britain's past attitudes towards alcohol - from the gin mania of the1740s through the nineteenth century Beer crisis to Lloyd George's outrage during First World War.
Drinking for England by Fergus Linnane is published by J R Books
Thomas Ostermeier
The theatre director Thomas Ostermeier speaks to Kenan about his German subtitled production of Hedda Gabler currently on show in London
Thomas Ostermeier's production of Hedda Gabbler is playing at the Barbican Centre, London from 27th February to 1st March
