Programme Details

Jude Kelly and Christopher Dunkley review BBC TWO's new Culture Show. How successful is television's first arts magazine since The Late Show nearly 10 years ago? And can it win an audience in an all important early evening slot? 

We also uncover the secret life of one of our most popular novelists. Why did PatrickO'Brian try to obliterate all traces of his previous life at the age of 30?

We review a new production of Hamlet , as seen through the eyes ofYukioNinagawa, one of the world's greatest living directors. And we take a look inside the new architecture built to house architecture - the new Architecture Galleries at the Victoria and Albert museum.

Night Waves, live at 9.30pm on BBC Radio 3.



Presenter: SusanHitch
Producer: MartinSmith


Additional Information
1) PatrickO'Brian: The Making of The Novelist, is published by Century
2) The Culture Show is repeated at 11:20pm (11/11/04) and continues on Thursdays on BBC ONE.
3) Hamlet, starring Michael Maloney and directed by Yukio Ninagawa runs at the Barbican until November 27th.
4) The Architecture Galleries at the Victoria and Albert museum in London open on November 16th. A book - Exploring Architecture, Buildings Meaning and Making - accompanies the opening.