2 December 2005
Friday 2 December 2005 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
In the film Tickets, internationally renowned directors Ken Loach, Abbas Kiaorostami and Ermanno Olmi combine to tell different stories set on a Rome-bound train. Mathew Sweet discovers whether the film suffers or succeeds because of a glut of international talent.
Programme details
Urban sprawl is considered a bad thing these days, an American import responsible for destroying our countryside and contributing to pollution and global warming. But a new book by historian Robert Bruegmann suggests otherwise, that sprawl has always been with us and that it actually has something going for it.
In tonight's Night Waves Matthew Sweet talks to Bruegmann and to the architect George Ferguson about sprawl and its history, about the power of the anti sprawl movement and about our basic assumptions about suburbs, cities and our retreating green spaces.
When we think of Aboriginal art we usually think of dot paintings and impenetrable stories of dreams and wandering around the Australian outback. A new exhibition in London hopes to put the record straight with an exhibition of paintings from a community of mainly female artists from Utopia in the Central Desert north of Alice Springs.
Matthew Sweet describes this work but also investigates the concerns over the Aboriginal art market. He talks to contemporary dealer Lauraine Diggins who has been working with Aboriginal artists for over 20 years and to the writer and critic Germaine Greer who questions the quality of much Aboriginal work and the intentions of the international market in art that few outsiders can really understand.
Also on the programme; Jose Arroyo reviews Tickets, a new film set on a Rome bound train that is remarkable for the fact that it has three separate top notch directors - Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami and Ken Loach.
And we hear from the judges of the annual Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Architecture - who is hot this year and what are the issues that emerging young architects are facing today?
Additional Information:
Sprawl by Robert Brugemann is published by Chicago University Press.
Memory as Landscape, an exhibition of the work of Utopian Aboriginal artists, is at the October Gallery in London from 8 Decmeber to 28 January.
Tickets is released nationwide on 2 December, Certificate 15.
Emmerging Architecture, an exhibition of the winning work, is on at the Royal Institute of British Architecture from 2 December.
