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Paul Allen talks to historian Sir Ian Kershaw about his new study on the life of Lord Londonderry, peer, cabinet minister and 'friend' of Adolf Hitler.
Does his rise and fall before World War II open a window onto the role of the British aristocracy and the policy of appeasement?

Following the public successes of Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project and Anish Kapoor's Marsyas can the latest work to fill the great space of Tate Modern's turbine hall live up to expectations?
Paul Allen talks to critic Richard Cork about the hall's latest resident: a new sound installation from American artist Bruce Nauman.

There's a new magazine which aims to take in the worlds of poetry, politics and culture. The Liberal may be new but it claims it's inspiration from an ill fated venture between poets Lord Byron, Shelley and Leigh Hunt in 1822.
Paul Allen asks The Liberal's latest editor Ben Ramm, and Leigh Hunt's biographer Professor Nicholas Roe, does the modern Liberal stand any better chance of success 182 years later?

And Night Waves begins its week long look at the six buildings nominated for this years RIBA Sterling Prize for architecture, beginning with the Kunsthuas in Graz Austria, and the Imperial War Museum North, Manchester.
The winner will be announced on Saturday 16th October.

That's all on Night Waves with Paul Allen on BBC Radio 3 at 9.30pm.