30 March 2006
Thursday 30 March 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
The first night verdict on Kurt Weill's only work to premiere in Britain, the political satire Arms and the Cow which hasn't been seen here since 1935.
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Kurt Weill may be best known for his work in Berlin and on Broadway. But on Night Waves tonight there is the first opportunity to hear the verdict on his only work to premiere in Britain. Arms and the Cow has not been seen in this country since that opening run in 1935. Will David Pountney's production for Opera North make this political satire come alive for a new age?
Also on Night Waves tonight, Paul Allen talks to David Belton, a former Newsnight producer who covered the conflict in Rwanda in 1994 and who has returned to portray it through fiction in his new film Shooting Dogs. He answers criticisms that in going back to film there and casting those who witnessed the genocide, he is re-traumatising the nation.
Paul also talks to two writers on the Renaissance, novelist Sarah Dunant and historian Jerry Brotton, to find out what the increasingly happy marriage is between the two forms. Join Paul Allen for all this and more on Night Waves live this evening at 9.30, here on BBC Radio 3.
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Shooting Dogs is released on Friday 31 March, Certificate 15.
Sarah Dunant's novel In the Company of the Courtesan is published by Little Brown. Jerry Brotton's most recent book, The Sale of the King's Goods, is published by Macmillan.
The Radio 3 celebration of the Royal Court 50 years on begins at 8pm on Sunday 2 April with a live broadcast from the theatre of five short plays. They have been especially commissioned from playwrights Joe Penhall, Laura Wade, Wole Soyinka, Arnold Wesker and Timberlake Wertenbaker. The evening continues at 9.30 with Radio 3's Sunday Feature The Birth of the Royal Court.
Opera North's production of Kurt Weill's operetta Arms and the Cow is at the Alhambra in Bradford until Saturday 1 April before touring to Nottingham, Norwich, Salford, Newcastle, Hull, Sheffield and Aberdeen.
