Having spent a month just eating burgers for Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock goes on to explore what other life changing experiences are possible in just 30 days.
Programme details
Revelations and nakedness in this edition of Night Waves: from Super Size Me documentary-maker Morgan Spurlock, to a new exhibition that claims to deconstruct the master of the traditionally proportioned nude.
The National Gallery exhibition Rubens: A Master in the Making sets out to analyse the way in which Rubens made his paintings - from the sculptures that inspired him to his studies of the workings of the human body, through his preliminary sketches and drawings to the paintings themselves. Critic Andrew Graham-Dixon assesses whether the National Gallery has captured the genius of Rubens.
Then there's an interview with the handle-bar moustached, burger-munching star of Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock, exploring the boundaries of documentary taste, in a week when the digital television channel More4 is running a series of his documentaries.
And Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, who won four Oscar nominations for his documentary style City of God, a film about children growing up in the violent slums of Brazil, reveals how he turned his eye to the even more devastating slums of Nairobi for his new film The Constant Gardener, about the sins of the pharmaceutical industry and how, in the process, he became an accidental activist.
All that, and more, in Night Waves tonight at 9.30 here on BBC Radio 3.
Additional details:
Rubens: A Master in the Making is on display at the National Gallery from 26 October 2005 until 15 January 2006.
The Constant Gardener will be shown at cinemas nationwide from 11 November onwards.
A Victorian Actor and His World, Jeffrey Richards' biography of Sir Henry Irving, is published by Hambledon.
Dark Tourism by Malcolm Foley and J. John Lennon is published by Thomson Learning.
Morgan Spurlock's documentary series 30 Days runs for the next six weeks on the new channel More4, starting this Thursday, 27 October.
