4 October 2005
Tuesday 4 October 2005 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
In 1991, the blood-drenched novel American Psycho made its author, Brett Easton Ellis, the bratpack bete noir of American fiction. In Lunar Park, his first novel for seven years, he turns his bleak black humour on himself. On Night Waves tonight, he joins Philip Dodd to discuss his fictional alter ego - and his fraught relationship with his father...
Programme Details
In 1991, the blood-drenched novel American Psycho made its author, Brett Easton Ellis, the bratpack bete noir of American fiction. In Lunar Park, his first novel for seven years, he turns his bleak black humour on himself. On Night Waves tonight, he joins Philip Dodd to discuss his fictional alter ego - and his fraught relationship with his father...
Plus - the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki has been challenging his country's taboos for four decades. As a definitive exhibition of his sexually explicit work opens in London, Philip is joined by art critic Waldemar Januszczak and photography critic Joanna Pitman to discuss what Araki tells us about contemporary Japan...
The historian Michael Burleigh won huge praise - and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction - for hisThe Third Reich - A New History . Now he has extended his exploration of 'political religion' back across the nineteenth century to the murderous roots of secular zealotry in the French Revolution...
And moments after the curtain comes down on Trevor Nunn's new Old Vic production of Richard II, Susannah Clapp gives Night Waves the first review of Kevin Spacey's performance as Shakespeare's weakest King...
That's all on Night Waves with Philip Dodd tonight live here on BBC Radio 3, just after nine thirty .
Presenter: Philip Dodd
Producer: Phil Tinline
Further Information
Lunar Park by Brett Easton Ellis is published by Picador.
Araki: Self, Life, Death opens on Thursday (6 October 2005) at the Barbican Centre in the City of London and runs until 22 January 2006. www.barbican.org.uk. And to accompany the exhibition, Phaidon are publishing Araki, a comprehensive compilation of the photographer's work.
Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the French Revolution to the Great War by Michael Burleigh is published by Harper Collins on 10 October 2005.
Trevor Nunn's production of Richard II is at the Old Vic in central London and is currently running until 26 November 2005 . www.oldvictheatre.com
