Playlist
The Walmart Phenomenon
A new film 'Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price' directed by Robert Greenwald accuses the giant retailer Wal-Mart of a series of unethical practices.
Richard Tomkins of the Financial Times and writer Joanna Blythman discuss the Wal Mart phenomenon and how we can live with or without supermarkets.
All in the Game
Writer Jim White reviews 'All in the Game', a new drama written by awarding winning Tony Grounds and starring Ray Winstone.
'All in the Game' is set within the world of premiership football and looks at father and son relationships and how money and power have become some of the driving forces behind the game.
The Wilson Twins
Night Waves talks to the video artists Jane and Louise Wilson about their work and forthcoming exhibition.
'The New Brutalists' includes a disturbing narrative of the darker aspects of colonialism at the beginning of the twentieth century as well as an exploration of the fears that can be generated by institutional architecture and architectural spaces.
H.E.Bates
With the publication of a new autobiography of H.E.Bates, Night Waves assesses the legacy of this prolific and much-loved writer.
Was he, as he longed to be, anything like an English Chekov?
Additional Information:
'Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price' is released on May 12, Certificate PG.
'All in the Game' is on Channel 4 on Thursday 11 May
'Jane and Louise Wilson: The New Brutalists' is on at the Lisson Gallery in London from 17 May - 24 June 2006.
'The Vanished World' by HE Bates is published by Methuen.
