What does it mean to be in love in the 21st century?
Wednesday 23 May 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
What does it mean to be in love in the 21st century? Philip Dodd investigates a new book that borrows the method of Socrates to explore all the dimensions of love around us today.
Playlist
Clive James
Philip Dodd talks to Clive James about his new book 'Cultural Amnesia'.
Inspired by notes he has made in the margins of books over his lifetime, James describes it as his intellectual autobiography.
This A to Z collection of essays about the thinkers and artists of the twentieth century reveals thoughts on subjects as varied as why Edward Said was mistaken and the wrongfootedness of attitudes that declare that white men can't play jazz.
Discover more as Clive James joins Philip live in the studio.
Cultural Amnesia by Clive James is published by Picador.
Conrad Shawcross
Young British artist Conrad Shawcross is under commission to create a work for the huge eight storey atrium of the Unilever building in London.
Philip gets a preview of 'Space Trumpet' while talking to the artist about this the latest in a series of sculptures utilising sound.
Love
Also tonight, as a new book about love is published that asks what the master of the subject, Socrates, still has to say to us today, Philip discusses contemporary love in all its manifestations with Christopher Phillips and Professor Mary Evans.
Socrates in Love: Philosophy for a Passionate Heart by Christopher Phillips is published by W. W. Norton.
Christopher Phillips will be appearing at the following venues:
8pm, Friday 1 June - NO ALIBIS, 83 Botanic Avenue, Belfast BT7 1JL
7pm, Monday 4 June - WATERSTONE'S, Gower Street, London WC1
7pm,Tuesday 5 June - BLACKWELL BOOKSHOP, 48-51 Broad St, Oxford
7pm,Wednesday 6 June - TOPPING & COMPAN, 3 Bladud Buildings, Broad St, Bath, BA1 5LS
7pm,Thursday 7 June - WORD POWER BOOKS, 43-45 West Nicolson St, Edinburgh
Test Match
And as Test Match Special celebrates its fiftieth anniversary Night Waves explores the three decades in which it shared a frequency with the Third Programme.
For many people, high culture and cricket made a perfect combination - Night Waves asked one fan to look back at Test Match Special and its connections with the arts...
