11 May 2006
Thursday 11 May 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Isabel Hilton will be talking to Jason Elliot, the author of 'Mirrors of the Unseen', a book drawing on three years travel in Iran.
Maxim Gorky (1907)
From PCA Postcard Archive
Postcard from the PCA Postcard Archive.
Playlist
The Line Of Beauty
Alkarim Jivani will be discussing BBC2's new adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker prize winning novel, 'The Line of Beauty', a tale of sex, drugs and money during the period between Mrs Thatcher's two election victories of 1983 and 1987.
'The Line of Beauty' begins at 9pm on BBC Two on Wednesday May 17.
Line of Beauty website.
Mirrors of the Unseen
Isabel Hilton will be talking to Jason Elliot, the author of 'Mirrors of the Unseen', a book drawing on three years travel in Iran. Elliot explores the urban wastelands of the capital Tehran, travels through the northern forests on horseback and visits Kurdistan and the Iraq border in an attempt to reach an understanding of modern Iran.
'Mirrors of the Unseen' by Jason Elliot is published by Picador
Enemies
'Enemies' was written while playwright Gorky was in exile in Boston. The play was censored by both the pre-revolutionary regime in Russia and by Stalin himself. Susannah Clapp will be rushing from the Almeida Theatre in London to give a first night review of David Hare's adaptation of 'Enemies'.
'Enemies' is at the Almeida Theatre in London
Almeida Theatre
West Wing
This Sunday, on American television, another political era comes to an end as the final episode of The West Wing is broadcast. As the fictional president Josiah Bartlett's second term closes the writer and journalist Jonathan Freedland joins Isabel to pay tribute to the series which made politics seem a noble profession.
West Wing website
'The West Wing' is on More4 on Friday nights at 9pm
Postcard gallery
The cultural guru Stephen Bailey is a passionate fan of postcards and sees the task of composition in a five inch square space as one of the highest literary challenges. As a fan of the postcard he has paid a visit to the new exhibition space in the basement of the Postcard Tearooms in Dering Street, which Anthony d'Offay, art dealer and avid postcard collector plans to devote entirely to postcard exhibitions.
The exhibition is at the PCA Postcard Archive, Dering Street, London, W1S 1AG, open 10.30 - 6.30 Tuesday - Saturday.
Postcard exhibition website.
