10 March 2006
Friday 10 March 2006 21:45-22:15 (Radio 3)
Paul Allen and guests discuss the award winning South African film Tsotsi, which tells the story of six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.
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On Nightwaves tonight, Paul Allen reviews Oscar winning film South African film Tsotsi with novelist Gillian Slovo. Tsotsi is South African playwright’s Athol Fugard’s only novel and Fughard himself said that the screenplay is the best screen adaptation of his work. It tells the story of a young black gang leader, living in a township on the edge of Johannesburg, and what happens to him when he carjacks a car which contains a baby.
It's over thirty years since Suffolk writer Ronald Blythe published his famous portrait of an English village, Akenfield, which was also made into a ground breaking film by Peter Hall. Journalist Craig Taylor has returned to the village to chronicle the changes since the first book was written, and Suffolk writer Roger Deakin and Patrick Wright assess what Akenfield – now and then - tells us about the way in which we understand the countryside, and the seismic changes in rural life that have had a profound effect on its inhabitants.
Also, from the rural heartlands to the urban underground – it's 100 years to the day since the Bakerloo line opened. Writer and former employee of London Underground Christopher Ross looks at the history and significance of underground travel.
That’s Nightwaves with Paul Allen tonight at 9.45.
