Bryan Appleyard and Marcus Chown
Thursday 18 January 2007 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Playlist
Simon Patterson
Matthew Sweet talks to the Turner Prize nominee Simon Patterson about his new Exhibition Black List. Using cinema screens and projecting words and images on to them, he stands the names of modern movies and stars alongside those of lesser known names of the 40's and 50s who suffered from the anti-communist Hollywood blacklists.
Infamous and Capote
Critic Nigel Floyd compares and contrasts 2 films that focus on exactly the same subject: the period in Truman Capote's life when he wrote the ground-breaking book In Cold Blood.
Last year actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman won an Oscar for his role as the eccentric novelist and this week Toby Jones offers his very different interpretation of the same individual in Infamous. But what does Infamous have to tell us that we didn't already know from the earlier movie, Capote?
There came a gypsy riding
Theatre critic Julia Pascal reviews Frank McGuiness' world premier of 'There Came A Gypsy Riding' at The Almeida Theatre in London. A story of a family trying to hold things together as a visitor from the past exposes a dark secret.
The play is directed by The Almeida's Artistic Director Michael Attenborough and includes Eileen Atkins and Imelda Staunton amongst it cast.
Immortality
Physicist and journalist Marcus Chown and Journalist Brian Appleyard are live in the studio discussing the pros and cons of Immortality.
The Immortalist Movement claim that the first human being to live a thousand years has already been born, but how realistic are the latest scientific and technological ideas around eternal life. Night Waves hopes to have all the answers!
