19 June 2006
Monday 19 June 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Steve Coogan as 'Saxondale'
BBC/BabyCow Productions
Playlist
Albie Sachs
Isabel Hilton talks to Justic Albie Sachs, one of the foremost grand old men of the new South Africa.
He went from being blown up by the apartheid regime's security services to helping South Africa's new Constitution.
He tells Isabel why he believes the arts have a central place in helping countries recover from civil strife, and sings the song that kept him sane in solitary confinement for 168 days.
Steve Coogan's 'Saxondale'
Alkarim Jivani assesses the new sitcom from the comedian Steve Coogan.
Can he finally escape his hugely successful - and annoyingly clingy - former persona, Alan Partridge?
Steve Coogan's 'Saxondale' is on Mondays at 10pm on BBC 2.
Chairman Mao
A year after its first publication, Isabel returns to the incendiary biography of Mao by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday.
What sort of impact has its denunciation of Mao as an irredeemable demon had - in academia, and the world at large?
'Mao - The Untold Story' by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday is published by Cape.
The City in 2056
In the first of a series of specially commissioned letters, the Indian writer Rana Dasgupta imagines what London will look like in 2056.
Architecture Week runs from 16 to 25 June.
