Harold Pinter
Thursday 15 March 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter talks to Philip Dodd about his play, The Homecoming, on the eve of a new Radio 3 production, in which he himself plays the role of Max alongside Michael Gambon and Gina McKee. Pinter last acted in the play in 1969, so how have his feelings about it changed?
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter who will be speaking about his new radio play on Night Waves.
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Harold Pinter
A rare extended interview with Nobel laureate Harold Pinter as he prepares to star in a radio production of his own play The Home Coming.
For the first time, Pinter will play the domineering father figure, Max, alongside a cast that includes Sam West, Rupert Graves and Michael Gambon.
Philip Dodd talks to Pinter about acting as well as writing, about The Home Coming and how it feels 46 years after it was written and how, as Pinter puts it, radio saved his life.
The Eye
Also on the programme, science writer and occasional cameraman Simon Ings comes to the studio to talk about the history, culture and physiology of the human eye.
He tells Philip Dodd how seeing evolved, how the eye works and how the eye shapes the mind.
Historian Lynn Nead joins the discussion to see how the way we see both shapes and is shaped by visual culture such as art, films and advertising.
The Eye: A Natural History by Simon Ings is published by Bloomsbury.
Kicking A Dead Horse
And finally a trio of heavyweight prizes as Booker short-listed novelist Colm Toibin joins Philip live from Dublin for a first night review of Sam Shepard's new play 'Kicking a Dead Horse', starring Oscar nominated actor Stephen Rea.
Sam Shepard is, of course, a Pulitzer-prize winning writer and actor.
Kicking A Dead Horse is performed between 15 March - 14 April 2007 at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin.
