Programme Details

Peter Singer has been described as one of the most influential and controversial philosophers alive. His wife, Renata is a novelist. Together they have produced an anthology which attempts to see the connections between philosophy and literature. China Mieville asks them why they believe its so important to explore this affiliation now, and how it can alter the way we see the world.

Also, a review of the work of the Italian artist, Jannis Kounellis. Kounellis has been a major figure in contemporary art for the past four decades. And now, his first solo show in Britain for ten years has opened in Oxford.

The writers Denise Mina and Lesley Grant-Adamson consider whether crime fiction changes in any profound sense when it crosses national boundaries.

And the anthropologist Steven Mithen gives his view of what mattered most in his discipline this year.

Night Waves, live at 9.30pm on BBC Radio 3


Presenter: China Mieville
Producer: Zahid Warley



Additional Information
1) The Moral of the Story :An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature edited by Peter and Renata Singer is published by Blackwell.
2) The Jannis Kounellis Exhibition is at Modern Art Oxford, Oxford.
3) The Field of Blood by Denise Mina will be published by Bantam Press in March.
4) Writing Crime Fiction by Lesley Grant-Adamson is published by Hodder Educational.
5) After The Ice: A Global Human History by Steven Mithen is published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson.