Susan Hitch talks to actor and director Richard E Grant about his autobiographical new film Wah-Wah, set in Swaziland during the final years of colonial rule.
Che Guevara
© Victoria and Albert Museum
Images of Che Guevara from the forthcoming exhibition Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon at the V&A Museum
Playlist
Interview: Richard E Grant
Susan Hitch talks to actor Richard E Grant who has written and directed his first film called 'Wah Wah'. Set in Swaziland at the end of the 1960's as the country is about to become Independent of British Colonial rule, 'Wah Wah' is a semiautobiographical coming of age story with a cast including Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson and Julie Walters.
'Wah Wah' is on general release certificate 15.
Interview: Gary Younge
The journalist Gary Younge talks about his new book, 'Stranger in a Strange Land, Encounters in the Disunited States'. The author offers a perspective on a nation which he describes as growing more isolated from the rest of the world and bitterly divided against itself.
'Stranger in a Strange Land, Encounters in the Disunited States' is published by Guardian Books.
Preview: 'Abrogate'
Gary Younge is joined by the writer and critic Anne Karpf to preview a new satirical play written for Radio 4 by Larry Gelbert best known as one of the creators of the hit television series MASH. 'Abrogate', is set during an imaginary congressional hearing investigating the abrogation of human rights under the Bush regime.
'Abrogate' is the Friday play this Friday 26 May at 9.00pm.
Discussion: Alberto Korda's portrait of Che Guevara
Writer and Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation, Amanda Hopkinson discusses the history and appeal of the famous portrait of the revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara photographed by Alberto Korda in 1960.
The exhibition 'Revolutionary and Icon' will be at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from 7 June 2006.
