Playlist
Deep Water
Will Self and the artist Tacita Dean join Isabel Hilton to discuss the film Deep Water.
Using documentary footage and tape recordings, the film retells the story of the first solo round the world sailing race in 1968 in which the amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst faked his progress before disappearing in the mid-Atlantic.
Bernard Shaw
Colm Toibin, whose recent book on Henry James, was nominated for the Booker prize, joins Isabel to discuss Bernard Shaw's story The Adventures of the Black Girl and her Search for God.
This small parable of theological discovery was so controversial that it caused a public outcry, with Shaw decried as a blasphemer.
American Gun Culture
Isabel Hilton investigates the American obsession with guns and its effect on American culture from Buffalo Bill to Dick Chaney.
The Picadilly line turns 100
And, as the Piccadilly tube line celebrates its 100th birthday, Night Waves goes underground to uncover the cultural effects of the recruitment drive from the Caribbean that brought thousands over to the UK to work on London's transport system 50 years ago.
