The Chalk Garden
Wednesday 11 June 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Matthew Sweet has a first-night review of The Chalk Garden by Enid Bagnold, best known for having written the novel National Velvet.
First performed in 1956, with John Gielgud directing Peggy Ashcroft and Edith Evans, the new production is directed at the Donmar by Michael Grandage, and stars Penelope Wilton and Margaret Tyzack.
Andrea Riseborough as Margaret Thatcher
Andrea Riseborough as Margaret Thatcher
Playlist
The Long Walk to Finchley
Matthew Sweet is joined by Margaret Thatcher's biographer Charles Moore to look at the new television drama TheLong Walk to Finchley which focuses on Thatcher's early political journey and takes a satirical look at her determination to get selected in a Tory seat in the 1950s, and discuss her impact on television when she was in office, and when she was out.
The Long Walk to Finchley is broadcast on BBC4 on 12 June at 9pm
The Chalk Garden
Matthew is joined by Susannah Clapp who reviews the first night of Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden, the first major London revival for 30 years of this dark comedy of intergenerational ties. Michael Grandage directs the tale of Sixteen year old Laurel who runs wild in the family manor house by the sea. But things change with the appointment of a governess who brings a mysterious presence to an already dysfunctional household.
The Chalk Garden is playing at the Donmar Warehouse, London from 5June to 2 August
Wallace Broecker
Matthew talks to climate guru Wallace Broecker, the scientist who came up with the idea of global warming a quarter of a century ago. At the time, Wallace Brocker's argument that climate was being provoked like an `angry beast' was largely ignored and, at times, ridiculed. However, his discoveries laid the foundation for the serious study of climate change and, nearly thirty years on, he continues to pursue scientific solutions to the problem of global warming.
Fixing Climate is published by Green Profile
Cornelius Tacitus
The novelist Lawrence Norfolk celebrates the work of Cornelius Tacitus whose most famous work, The Histories and Annals, has been newly translated by Professor J C Yardley for Oxford University Press.
The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero is published by Oxford University Press
