The writer Sukhdev Sandhu leads Matthew Sweet into the dark heart of night-time London.
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Television Editing
Following a summer of revelation about documentaries misrepresenting their subjects and the banning of some editing techniques by Five News, Night Waves examines the current state of the ethics of editing. Should we re-examine the way we use editing to tell factual stories in news and documentaries or is the current cacophony simply a fuss over nothing?
Sukhdev Sandhu
Matthew Sweet is taken into the dark heart of the London night by Sukhdev Sandhu. He tells Matthew why he realised that - against his expectations - the only way to explore the nocturnal capital was not through solitary walks, but by spending time with people who work from dusk to dawn.
King Cotton by Jimmy McGovern
Award-winning television writer Jimmy McGovern has gone back to his early career roots and written a play for the theatre, even though his previous attempt was panned by the critics. His latest, King Cotton, links the Lancashire cotton famine with the American Civil War. The story is told through Tom, an impoverished mill-worker and Sokoto, a black slave from an American cotton plantation.
King Cotton is on at the Lowry in Manchester until Saturday 22 September.
On the Road
To mark the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's most famous book, Penguin Classics has for the first time published the uncensored version of 'On the Road'. The book exposed a world of sex, drink, drugs and bebop of 1940s and 1950s America and inspired a generation of writers and musicians. Sexual language and scenes once deemed too obscene have been edited back into this new publication and character pseudonyms replaced with real names. We talk to government Minister Kim Howells and writer Geoff Dyer to discuss the importance of the book to them and what new insights are revealed by the original scroll.
On The Road: The Original Scroll is published by Penguin Classics.
