Robert Lindsey in 'The Entertainer' at the Old Vic Theatre
Playlist
String Theory
Philip Dodd discusses a crisis in space, time and gravity with Lee Smolin, a pioneering theoretical physicist.
In the last twenty years hundreds of the best brains in physics and millions of dollars have been devoted to String Theory - an attempt to unify quantum theory, gravity and particle physics.
But, as Smolin points out in a new book, it remains unproven, untestable and unfalsifiable. He tells Philip Dodd why he thinks physics has stared too hard in one direction.
Michael Foot
Michael Foot will probably be best remembered for his years as leader of the Labour party in the 1980s. He has also lead one of the longest, cultured and most fascinating political lives of our era.
Philip Dodd discusses the legacy of Michael Foot with Labour peer and historian Kenneth O Morgan, author of a new biography of Foot, and Geoff Mulgan, former head of No 10's Policy Unit.
Inland Empire
A film which dreams and includes sequences of people with the heads of rabbits: the director summarises it simply as 'a story about a woman in trouble, and a mystery'.
He is David Lynch, and his film, 'Inland Empire' has been causing equal measures of horror and rapture among its first critics. Philip Dodd and Nigel Floyd give the Night Waves verdict.
The Entertainer
A new production of John Osborne's classic play 'The Entertainer' opens in London this week, with Robert Lindsay in the role made famous by Laurence Olivier.
Theatre critic Susannah Clapp tells Philip Dodd whether it's worth a round of applause.
