Tony Kushner talks to Matthew Sweet about his new musical Caroline or Change, the story of a young boy growing up in Louisiana in the 60s and his black maid.
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Tony Kushner
Matthew Sweet will be talks to Tony Kushner, the award winning playwright of Angels in America.
His new work, 'Caroline or Change', a musical set in Louisiana in the early 1960s opens this week at the National Theatre.
Kushner will be talking about he drew on his own childhood for inspiration and his work in progress, a play featuring Laura Bush as the heroine.
Gladstone and Disraeli
A new joint biography of Gladstone and Disraeli is published this week.
Roy Hattersley and David Willetts will be in the studio to defend their respective political heroes and revive the greatest of all parliamentary rivalries.
Leonard Cohen
Matthew Sweet talks to the comedian Arthur Smith about a new collection of poetry from the legendary songwriter Leonard Cohen.
