17 October 2005
Monday 17 October 2005 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Susan Hitch and guests discuss Jim Jarmusch's latest film Broken Flowers.
Programme details
In Night Waves this evening Susan Hitch is joined by Valentine Cunningham and Micheline Wandor to discuss the new BBC1 series of Dickens' Bleak House, adapted in 16 cliff-hanging half hour episodes by Andrew Davies.
Davies has said in interview that he believes that Dickens, were he alive today, would be a leading writer of TV soaps and so the cast of the new series includes the X-Files' Gillian Anderson , the comedian Johnny Vegas alongside Charles Dance and Timothy West.
Jim Jarmusch's film Broken Flowers, which stars Bill Murray as an aging Don Juan, is perhaps his most commercial yet. Nigel Floyd will be in the studio to give his verdict.
And The Chapman Brothers' latest exhibition As a Dog Returns to its Vomit opens at the White Cube Gallery this week. The show includes eighty Goya images, this time from a first edition of the artist's etchings entitled Los Caprichos.
When the Chapmans defaced Goya's Disasters of War two years ago some critics and art lovers were outraged. The art critic William Feaver will be in the studio to discuss the Chapmans' enduring fascination with Goya; and a discussion of We are Iran, a book of web-diaries which offers young Iranians the chance to express opinions in cyberspace about subjects including the condition of women and of repression and its subversion.
Night Waves, live at 9.30 this Monday night, presented by Susan Hitch here on BBC Radio 3.
Broken Flowers is on general release from 21 October , certificate 15.
As A Dog Returns to Its Vomit is at the White Cube Gallery in London until 3 December.
Bleak House begins on BBC1 on 27 October at 8pm.
We Are Iran is published by Portobello Books.
