Bernard Schlink
Thursday 14 February 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Kenan Malik talks to German judge-turned-novelist Bernard Schlink, author of the international best-seller The Reader, about his new book The Homecoming. It marks a return for Schlink to the topic of the German experience of World War II.
And Kenan goes to see a new exhibition of photographs from the archives of the magazine Vanity Fair, which includes classic images of stars of the early 20th century taken by legendary photographers such as Edward Steichen and Cecil Beaton.
Diana by Mario Testino, 1997. Copyright: Mario Testino
Diana by Mario Testino, 1997. Copyright Mario Testino 
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The New Cold War
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The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West is published by Bloomsbury
Emma Rice
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Brief Encounter is running at the Haymarket Cinema, London from 14February to 22June 2008
Vanity Fair Portraits
Vanity Fair Magazine has an unrivalled reputation for commissioning and publishing some of the best in portrait photography since its creation in 1913. A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London brings together a collection of these images, from black and white studies of early 20th century writers like HG Wells and Thomas Hardy, to glossy modern colour shots of famous actors and models. Photographer, Mario Testino, talks about his iconic portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales and Kenan is joined in the studio by the former picture editor of The Guardian, Eamon McCabe and James Danziger from Danziger Projects in New York.
Vanity Fair Portraits: 1913-2008 runs at the National Portrait Gallery, London from14 February to 26 May 2008. Click here to go to the National Portrait Gallery
Bernard Schlink
Kenan Malik talks to professor of law, practising judge and author of the international bestseller The Reader, Bernhard Schlink, about his new novel, Homecoming - which is also set in post-war Germany and documents a search for identity made not only by the protagonist but the country itself.
Homecoming by Bernard Schlink is published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson
