The Investigation
Thursday 1 November 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
The Young Architect of the Year Awards
One of the entries for the BD YAYA Award for young architects.
Playlist
Young architect of the year
Night Waves announces the winner of this year's Young Architect of the Year Award.
Fresh from the award ceremony Matthew Sweet interviews the winning architects. How easy is it for young architects to make their mark in Britain today?
The Chechen War
The Russian war in Chechnya has been fought in near secrecy from the outside world. Now a remarkable new account of the war has emerged from a former conscript, Arkady Babchenko.
In his compelling book, One Soldier's War in Chechnya, he describes the violence of war and recounts extraordinary tales of drunkenness and abuse. The journalist and Russia watcher John Lloyd discusses the book.
The Investigation
The Investigation is a play performed in French by a company of actors from Rwanda. The play is about Auschwitz and is based on verbatim reports.
Just ten years after their own holocaust what does this performance say about the recent history of Rwanda?
The history of Dracula
Christopher Lee's iconic Dracula is re-released this week to mark 50 years of Hammer Horror. Matthew Sweet explores the emergence of the modern caped and fanged Vampire in the 19th century.
Historians Martyn Rady and Robert Mighall uncover the origins of the myth in the oral tales of the Balkans in the 16th century, and its assimilation into European folklore.
