Programme Details

Susan Hitch and guests, Dr. Noreena Hertz and David Manasian, business affairs editor of The Economist, discuss the film The Corporation and the documentary's thesis that corporations behave pathologically because of their inherent logic and legal obligation to pursue profit, without regard to external costs borne by others.

Biographer Bevis Hiller discusses the completion of his trilogy of the life of John Betjeman, this final volume finds the poet at the height of his fame as television personality, conservationist and Poet Laureate.

Suzannah Clapp reports from the first night of Nikolai Erdman's The Mandate, a biting satire on life in the USSR under the Bolsheviks.

That's all on Night Waves with Susan Hitch at 9.30pm



Presenter: Susan Hitch
Producer: Anne-Marie Cole





Additional information:

The Corporation, a film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbot and Joel Bakan opens in selected cinemas across the UK from 29th October.

Betjeman: The Bonus of Laughter is published in hardback by John Murray at £25.00

The Mandate by Nikolai Erdman at Cottesloe, National Theatre, London.