31 March 2006
Friday 31 March 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Matthew Sweet will be taking the measure of the biggest show of Van Gogh’s works in this country for forty years which is being unveiled at Compton Verney in Warwickshire.
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One of Britain’s leading playwrights, Trevor Griffiths, will be talking to Matthew Sweet in Night Waves this evening. The author of Comedians, Piano and Thatcher’s Children, as well as the screenplays for Reds and Fatherland is celebrated in a season of his recent work which opens next week in London and Matthew will be asking him about the power of humour and the need for political engagement.
Matthew will also be taking the measure of the biggest show of Van Gogh’s works in this country for forty years which is being unveiled on Friday at Compton Verney in Warwickshire and he’ll be assessing the merits of Tommy Lee Jones’ directorial debut – The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, a film about justice and loyalty set on the border between Mexico and the United States.
That’s all in Night Waves here on BBC Radio 3 at nine thirty this evening.
Presenter: Matthew Sweet
Producer: Zahid Warley
Additional information
1) Trevor Griffiths's To the Mountain – featuring Thermidor, Apricots and Camel Station is at the Studio Theatre, Victoria and Albert Theatre Museum, Russell Street, London, WC2 from Tuesday 4th- Saturday 23rd April.
2) The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by Tommy Lee Jones opens on Friday 31st March, Certificate 15.
3) Van Gogh and Britain: Pioneer Collectors is at Compton Verney in Warwickshire from 31st March 2006 – 18 June 2006 and then at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh from 7th July 2006 -24th September 2006.
