The Turn of the Screw
Monday 26 November 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Gabriel Gbadamosi presents a first night review of the new English National Opera and Mariinksy Theatre production of Benjamin Britten's ghost story opera, The Turn of the Screw, which won Russia's highest prize for the performing arts when it was premiered there last year.
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Thomas Middleton
Gabriel Gbadamosi re-assesses the life and work of the man often referred to as the `other Shakespeare' - Thomas Middleton. Middleton was the Renaissance dramatist responsible for seminal plays such as Women Beware Women, which explored sex, money, power, and God - and which led to his work being repeatedly censored. Now, more than a century since the last collected edition of his work was published, a new volume brings together all of Middleton's remarkable plays. The book's editor, Gary Taylor, joins Gabriel along with the academic Carol Rutter, to re-examine Middleton's significance and to find out if his works truly deserve as much recognition as his more famous contemporary, Shakespeare.
Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works is published by Oxford University Press.
Monarchy on TV
How have documentary makers portrayed the Royal Family on the small screen? As the BBC's new series on the monarchy begins, TV critic Chris Dunkley looks back at the evolution of the television doc through its changing portrayals of the Royal Family over the decades.
Monarchy: The Royal Family At Work begins on BBC 1 on Monday 26th November at 8.30pm.
Philosophy in Pubs
There'll also be a chance to catch up with the intriguing Philosophy in Pubs session from this year's Freethinking Festival of Ideas.
BBC - Radio 3 - Free Thinking 2007
The art market in Angola
Angola is emerging as the centre of a confident new African art scene, as a booming oil economy enables artists to produce and sell their work locally rather than aiming at the Western art market or flogging tourist trinkets. Sylvia Smith has recently travelled to Angola and she reports for Night Waves on what's happening there
The Turn Of The Screw
Gabriel is also joined by the critic Richard Coles to give the Night Waves verdict on the ENO's new production of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of The Screw, directed by David McVicar.
The Turn Of The Screw runs at the Coliseum in London until 8th December 2007.
