Turner Prize
Monday 3 December 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Philip Dodd and guests analyse and debate the key cultural issues of the week including the announcement of this year's Turner Prize winner. Plus Philip asks whether the Gospels are revolutionary material. A series of new books argue that the Bible needs to be saved from the clutches of conservative opinion, but can the political left and right both find what they want within the Holy Book?
Playlist
Sarkozy's France
When Nicolas Sarkozy was elected president of France in June, he promised to reform the country to face the challenges of the 21st century.
In order to do that he brought together a 'council' of forty four advisers to devise reforms that would "make the country work".
Some of the reforms have been less than popular and attempts to change the state pension system have resulted in nationwide strikes.
Alone among his council of advisers is one Briton; the historian and thinker Theodore Zeldin.
In this interview for Night Waves Philip Dodd asks him about Sarkozy's vision for France and how he and his fellow advisers set about trying to realise it.
The Killing Of John Lennon
The Killing of John Lennon is a new film examining the actions and motivations of Mark David Chapman, the 25 year old narcissist who gunned down John Lennon outside his Dakota apartment in New York in 1980.
It is filmed on the actual locations where events occurred and uses the real words of the killer who became so obsessed by the novel The Catcher in the Rye and then by John Lennon.
Philip Dodd talks to the film's writer and director Andrew Piddington. What is the point of such a film?
The Turner Prize
Also on Night Waves; the art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnstone on the winner of this year's Turner Art Prize that is announced tonight.
Does the nation's most prestigious and notorious art prize continue to excite?
And the politics of the bible - how has the bible been appropriated by both the left and by the right over the years and which side favors it most today?
