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Has television become more honest? On Night Waves tonight Peter Bazalgette, author of a new book on the subject and the man who brought Big Brother to this country, tells Robert Hanks that he believes we have seen a revolution in television that has led it to be less fake, less smiley and more entertaining.

Robert also reviews the latest version of the myth of Tristan and Yseult as the acclaimed Cornish theatre company, Kneehigh Theatre, bring their version of the Celtic love story to the National Theatre. Originally conceived as an open-air production, can the magic survive with the roof on?

And as a new biography aims to show us the writer Virginia Woolf through her work rather than her famous social life Robert talks to Julia Briggs about composing a biography of a writer who herself contemplated so much the distinction between fiction and biography.

Join Robert Hanks for Night Waves live at 9.30pm here on BBC Radio 3.


Presenter: Robert Hanks
Producer: Kirsty Pope





Additional Information
Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life by Julia Briggs is published by Penguin and is in the shops now

Billion Dollar Game by Peter Bazalgette is published by Time Warner Books and is in the shops now

Tristan and Yseult is in repertory at the National Theatre until June 7th
http://www.nt-online.org/

The Edukators is in cinemas around the country from Friday, certificate 15