24 April 2006
Monday 24 April 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Andy Martin reviews 'Rousseau's Dog' - David Edmonds and John Eidinow's follow up to their surprise hit 'Wittgenstein's Poker'.
Playlist
The Lowry Arts Centre in Salford has a new exhibition documenting the mass take up of outdoor activities in the 1930s - including cycling, rambling, seaside visits and even nude sunbathing. Social historian Ken Worpole and the exhibition's curator Tim Wilcox get to grips with this sudden burst of modern leisure and explain why, for the working classes, walking the hills was a political act.
On the eve of the National theatre's production of the Voysey Inheritance Sheila Stowell assesses the legacy of is author, Harley Granville Barker, spiritual father of the national theatre, re-imaginer of Shakespeare and pioneer of the role of theatrical director.
We'll also review Rousseau's Dog, the new book from the authors of Wittgenstein's Poker chronicling the disastrous break down in relations between two luminaries of the Enlightenment - David Hume and Jean Jacques Rousseau. Deep philosophical difference or petulant personality clash? Andy Martin joins us in the studio to say which.
Additional information
'A Day in the Sun: Outdoor pursuits in Art in the 1930s' is on at The Lowry in Salford from 29 April to 25 June.
'The Voysey Inheritance' is on at The National Theatre in London from 18 April to 7 June.
'Rousseau's Dog' by David Edmonds and Johm Eidinow is published by Faber and Faber.
