Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl
Thursday 12 January 2006 21:45-22:15 (Radio 3)
Grayson Perry talks about his autobiography 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl' which explores his early years in Essex and the unhappy childhood which, in some ways, led to him becoming a transvestite.
Programme Details
When the potter Grayson Perry accepted the 2003 Turner Prize dressed as Claire, a young girl, the photographs of the event appeared in newspapers around the world. In Night Waves this evening Grayson Perry will be in the studio to talk about his autobiography 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl' which explores his early years in Essex and the unhappy childhood which, in some ways, led to him becoming a transvestite.
He'll also be reviewing, along with Maev Kennedy, the latest film by Neil Jordan, 'Breakfast on Pluto'. Adapted from Patrick McCabe's novel and set in Northern Ireland and London in the 1960s and 70s it tells another story of a boy's painful childhood.
And Philip will also be talking to Stephen Poliakoff about his new two hour dramas for BBC One. He'll be discussing his career as a television dramatist from his early years writing Plays for Today in the 1970s and his return to the BBC with 'The Lost Prince' and the two new plays, 'Friends and Crocodiles' and 'Gideon's Daughter' which explore the state of Britain today.
Night Waves, live at 10.00 this Thursday evening, presented by Philip Dodd here on BBC Radio 3.
Further information
'Friends and Crocodiles' by Stephen Poliakoff is on BBC1 on Sunday January 15 th at 9pm.
'Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl' by Wendy Jones is published by Chatto and Windus.
'Breakfast on Pluto' is on general release certificate 15.
