Programme Details

The black private eye, Easy Rawlins, is one of the most engaging fictional gumshoes to have emerged in the last twenty years. In Night Waves this evening his creator, Walter Mosley, will be talking to Susan Hitch about Easy's latest case. It involves a hunt for the killer of a woman known as Little Scarlet and its set at the time of the race riots in the Watts district of Los Angeles.

Also in the programme there'll be a tribute to Robert Louis Stevenson from two of his most fervent admirers - the writers, Alberto Manguel and Louise Welsh; and Susannah Clapp will be discovering how commerce and culture are combining in Paines Plough's innovative season at London's sparky, new theatre - the Chocolate Factory.

That's all in Night Waves with Susan Hitch here on BBC Radio 3 this evening at 9.30pm.






Presenter: Susan Hitch
Producer: Zahid Warley




Additional information:

1) Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley is published by Little Brown.
2) Robert Louis Stevenson by Claire Harman is published on Monday by Harper Collins
3) Alberto Manguel's book Stevenson Under the Palm Trees was published last year by Canongate. They also published Tamburlaine must Die by Louise Welsh.
4) The Small Things by Enda Walsh is at the Chocolate Factory in Southwark Street until 27th February.
5) Aliens of the Deep is directed by James Cameron. There are screenings at the IMAX cinema at the Science Museum in London from next Friday.
6) Lavinia Greenlaw's new novel - An Irresponsible Age is expected to be published later this year by Fourth Estate.