Night Waves

19 January 2006

Thursday 19 January 2006 21:40-22:15 (Radio 3)

Paul Allen looks at how the artist Patrick Caulfield and the filmmaker Michael Winterbottom have been inspired by the novel Tristram Shandy in new works seen for the first time this week.

Duration:

35 minutes

Patrick Caulfield Sketch

Programme Details

On Night Waves tonight, Paul Allen examines the ways in which Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy has inspired both the artist Patrick Caulfield and the filmmaker Michael Winterbottom in new works seen for the first time this week.

Also, Paul is joined live in the studio by political cartoonist Martin Rowson who has written a book spanning the whole of history and purports to be a potted guide to the worst decisions the human race has ever made...Paul talks to him about the scale of his ambition and how he found the transition from pictures to prose.

And Night Waves has the first review of the new Sam Shepard play which opens this evening and explores the impossibility of the question 'Who am I?'. It took him ten years to write - find out if it is worth the wait, at 21:40pm.

Additional Information:

Michael Winterbottom's film A Cock and Bull Story is in cinemas nationwide from 20 January, Certificate 15.

Patrick Caulfield's tapestry Pause on the Landing can be seen at the British Library Conference Centre from 19 January.

Martin Rowson's book Snatches is published by Jonathan Cape on 26 January.

Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss is at the Almeida in London until 4 March.

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