6 February 2006
Monday 6 February 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Director of Shakespeare In Love, John Madden on his latest film, Proof and composer Gavin Bryars on his Gothic Dreams.
Programme Details
On Night Waves tonight Isabel Hilton talks to director of Shakespeare in Love and Mrs Brown, John Madden, about his latest film, Proof , which has both madness and mathematics at its centre. Formerly a prize-winning play, Isabel examines whether the translation into film equals a plus or a minus.
Isabel also discusses the latest evolution in the debate on happiness with two of its leading thinkers. Is minimising misery as well as maximising happiness, rather than the opportunity for material gain, what governments and policy makers should be legislating for?
And as the new Tate exhibition Gothic Nightmares opens, Night Waves kicks off the first in its own series - Gothic Dreams - by talking to composer Gavin Bryars about the music that makes the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end.
Additional Information:
Proof is in cinemas nationwide from the 10 February, certificate 12A
Richard Layard's book Happiness is in shops in hardback now published by Penguin, the paperback will be available in April
Gavin Bryars' music choices were:
The Hilliard Ensemble playing Perotin's Viderunt Omnes
Gothic Voices singing Hildegard of Bingen's A Feather on the Breath of God
Havergal Brian's Symphony No 1 'Gothic'
What's He Building? from the album Mule Variations by Tom Waits
