Playlist
Robert Walpole
Former politician Roy Hattersley and author Edward Pearce discuss the various rogues and heroes to have held and shaped the highest political office in the land.
As Edward Pearce's new biography attests, our first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, was something of a scoundrel and since he bestrode the political stage a cast of characters have left their mark on an office now held by Tony Blair.
How has Blair changed the office and what might happen to it after he has gone?
Raj Kamal Jha
Isabel Hilton talks to the novelist Raj Kamal Jha about his angry new book Fireproof.
This is a fictional account of the violence that gripped the Gujarati city of Ahmedabad in 2002 when hundreds of Muslims were killed and their houses burnt by a revenging Hindu mob.
Raj Kamal Jha talks about finding a fictional form to investigate such violence in modern India and the role of guilt in promoting reconciliation.
Climates - Relationships on Film
In 'Climates', the new film from the director of the award-winning Uzak, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the relationship between a photographer and his young wife changes with every season.
What's particularly interesting about this story is that the bickering couple are played by Ceylan and his young wife, Ebru.
Critic Nigel Andrews gives us the low-down on the auteurs who placed their relationships under the harsh glare of the wide-angle lens, from Orson Welles to Woody Allen.
The Deutsche Borse Prize
And art critic Sarah Kent reviews the shortlist for the prestigious Deutsche Borse prize for photography, seen as the equivalent of the Turner prize.
