31 January 2006
Tuesday 31 January 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Paul Allen talks to the radical and visionary environmentalist James Lovelock and we explore the British landmark trial that led to the end of human slavery in the Western world.
Programme Details
On Night Waves tonight, Paul Allen talks to the radical and visionary environmentalist James Lovelock. His latest book, The Revenge of Gaia, argues that mankind is on the brink of destroying itself and the Earth, and that we must take drastic action now to safeguard the future of human life.
After its recent success on Broadway, Edward Albee's masterpiece Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf has transferred to London 's West End. The play features an embittered, academic couple who gradually draw a younger couple, freshly arrived from the Midwest, into their vicious games of marital love-hatred, starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin in the central roles. Critic and director Alan Strachan reviews.
A new exhibition includes the works of one of the giants of modern theatre. Tadeusz Kantor, the Polish director, designer, visual artist and theorist had a career in which he tested the boundaries of several artistic disciplines. Artistic director David Farr explores his creative appeal.
And we explore the British landmark trial that led to the end of human slavery in the Western world. Paul Allen talks to legal historian Steven Wise about the trial of the black slave James Somerset in London in 1772. He had been taken from Virginia to England and then bound to return by his master who planned to sell him off in the West Indian slave market.
Join Paul Allen for Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 tonight, live at 9.30.
Additional Information:
The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock is published by Penguin at the start of February. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf opens at London's Apollo Theatre on 31 January.
Tadeusz Kantor's work is part of The Impossible Theatre exhibition at The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London from 3 February to 17 April.
Though The Heavens May Fall: The Landmark Trial that Led to the End of Human Slavery by Steven M. Wise is published as a Pimlico Original Paperback by Random House.
