Programme Details

As part of Africa 05, Isabel Hilton is joined by guests including Neil McGregor, director of the British Museum, to discuss how successful Britain has been at breaking from the imperial inheritance of thinking about African art as anthropological evidence. What does our ability or otherwise to see African art as art tell us about ourselves?

Plus the next in Night Waves' run of African objects - an ivory salt cellar and an ivory leopard from the Benin City State.

And Michael Winterbottom's new film Nine Songs is billed as the most sexually explicit British film ever made. Philip Hodson and Muriel Zagha join Isabel to discuss it.

That's all on Night Waves with Isabel Hilton, tomorrow night/ tonight at 9.45pm -slightly later than usual - here on Radio 3.



Presenter: Isabel Hilton
Producer: Phil Tinline


Additional Information:

Africa 05 is the biggest celebration of African culture ever organised in Britain, including visual arts, cinema, literature, history, music, craft, and performing arts.
For more details visit www.bbc.co.uk/bbcafrica/africa05/