Isabel Hilton with another edition of the arts and ideas programme.
Playlist
20th Century Art and Science
Mathematician Marcus de Sautoy and Art Historian Martin Kemp to discuss why 20th century science provided such rich pickings for 20th century art.
They examine concepts shared by both disciplines such as ambiguity, perspective and metaphor to see if the connections are more than skin deep.
Faultline
Choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh talks to Isabel Hilton about her new piece, Faultline. It is inspired by the tensions and contradictions of British Asian youth.
Norman Mailer
Christopher Bigsby reviews Norman Mailer's new work The Castle in the Forest.
9th Company
And Night Waves takes a look at the new film 9th Company depicting the grisly experiences of the red army in Afghanistan over 20 years ago.
We ask whether Putin's Russia is still scarred by the experience and whether that 1979 invasion can shed light on more recent ones.
