Isabel Hilton investiges the impact of conflict on the imagination of the great British sculptor, Henry Moore. He's best known for drawing inspiration from found objects and non-Western art but a new show at Perry Green in Hertfordshire reveals how he became passionately engaged in the world of classical mythology. Also, Isabel will be talking to award winning author Joe Pensall, looking at how imprisonment affects a writers work and paying tribute to the Sky at Night on its fiftieth anniversary.
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Henry Moore
Isabel will be investigating the impact of conflict on the imagination of the great British sculptor, Henry Moore.
He's best known for drawing inspiration from found objects and non-Western art but a new show at Perry Green in Hertfordshire reveals how during the Second World War he became passionately engaged in the world of classical mythology and produced some extraordinary work to accompany a melodrama devised by Edward Sackville-West with music by Benjamin Britten.
Moore and Mythology Gallery
The Moore and Mythology is at the Sheep Field Barn, Perry Green, Hertfordshire from 3 April - 23 September 2007. Bookings to visit can be made online at www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk
Joe Penhall
Imagine you're a technical whizz kid and you invent something that could revolutionise the way we fight wars.
Imagine that the Ministry of Defence tells you to hand over the intellectual copyright ..what do you do? That's the dilemma facing Ned - the hero of Joe Penhall's new play - Landscape with a Weapon. I
Isabel Hilton will be talking to the award winning author of Blue/Orange about public responsibility and private anguish.
Landscape with a Weapon opens this week at the Cottesloe
Writers and Imprisonment
For writers times of conflict can be times of imprisonment. This week an anthology will be published featuring work by writers from around the world who've been locked up for speaking out.
Two poets who've been through this, Jack Mapanje and Faraj Bayrakdar, will be explaining how they survived and how the experience affected their writing.
Another Sky, Voices of Conscience from Around the World, is published by Profile Books
Sky at Night
Last but not least the Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees, will be paying tribute to the television programme, The Sky at Night, which celebrates its fiftieth birthday this month.
The Sky at Night anniversary programme is repeated on Saturday 7that 12:45 - 13:15
