19 June 2008
Thursday 19 June 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Kenan Malik presents the arts and ideas programme.
The Edge of Love
Keira Knightley as Vera Phillips, in The Edge Of Love.
Playlist
Marek Kohn
In a new extended essay, published this week writer Marek Kohn explores issues of Trust. Beginning with its biological origins, he looks at the role of trust in society today from family to nations through equality, community and identity.
He argues that it is imperative to build trust at every level in the modern world. Kenan Malik talks to Marek Kohn about his new book.
Trust: Self-Interest and the Common Good is published on June 26th.
John Maybury
The director of The Edge of Love talks to Kenan Malik about putting the life of Dylan Thomas on screen in a new film starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller and Matthew Rhys. He also reflects on his apprenticeship with Derek Jarman - and on coming back from the dead.
The Edge of Love is out on Friday, certificate 15.
Homosexuality and the brain
New research indicates similarities between the brains of gay men and straight women, and similar parallels between those of lesbians and straight men. It reopens the debate about the extent to which homosexuality is hardwired, as opposed to culturally or environmentally determined, or even as some would have it, a lifestyle choice.
The psychologist and author of Born Gay, Glenn Wilson, and author of Anti-Queer, Mark Simpson, discuss what it would mean for gay people and for wider society if it were ever to be conclusively proved that gayness is determined from birth.
Gavin Turk on Colin Self
The artist be discussing the work of his 'neglected hero', the British pop artist Colin Self, as the first retrospective of his work opens in Chichester. Self hasn't had as much exposure as more prominent fellow members of the pop art movement Peter Blake and Richard Hamilton, but Turk argues he's just as interesting and has been hugely influential on Turk's own work.
http://www.pallant.org.uk/phg/html/programme/exhibitions/forthcoming/forthcomingexhibitions.html
And you can see images of Colin Self's work at the Night Waves Colin Self Gallery.
Gavin's website: http://www.houseoffairytales.org/
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