22 November 2005
Tuesday 22 November 2005 21:40-22:15 (Radio 3)
Why have corvids inspired musicians and artists from Franz Schubert to Ted Hughes, via Alfred Hitchcock? Plus a review of the film Everything is Illuminated.
Programme details
Susan Hitch hears why corvids have inspired musicians and artists from Franz Schubert to Ted Hughes, as a new book In the Company of Crows and Ravens is published. Its author argues that not only have these birds influenced our culture but also we have influenced theirs - and he has personal experience to prove it.
Susan also examines memory and war in two different ways on tonight's/tomorrow night's programme. Writer and film critic Adam Mars-Jones reviews the film Everything is Illuminated - adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer's hilarious prize winning novel about a search for his tragic Ukrainian Jewish past. And historian Gerard DeGroot tells us why in his opinion we should stop referring to the dead of the First World War as the 'Lost Generation'.
And as part of Night Waves' ongoing analysis of the Turner Prize contenders, novelist Maggie Gee explains why artist Darren Almond should be the man with the big money when it is awarded a week on Monday.
Additional Information:
Everything is Illuminated is in cinemas from 25 th November, certificate 12A.
Gerard DeGroot's book about British society in the Great War era, Blighty , is published by Longman. The latest in the Channel 4 'Lost Generation' season, Not Forgotten with Ian Hislop began this week and continues next Sunday 27 November at 8pm .
John Marzluff and Tony Angell's In the Company of Crows and Ravens is published by Yale University Press on 24 November.
You can see all of the Turner Prize nominees at Tate Britain until 22 January. There is also an opportunity to judge for yourself if you go to Edinburgh 's Waverly station where you can see the work in an exhibition there until Saturday 26 November. The Turner Prize is awarded on Monday 5 December and will be broadcast on Channel 4.
