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Stuart Hall has been one of the leading figures of the British left for over forty years. He is a visionary race theorist and has made profound contributions to the field of cultural studies. His work has sparked fierce debate around questions of culture, race and ethnicity. Stuart Hall is the subject for tonight's extended Night Waves interview chaired by Philip Dodd.

Since he arrived in Britain from Jamaica in 1951 Stuart Hall has been one of the country's most charismatic thinkers, once described as a Marxian version of Dorian Gray. He joined E. P. Thompson and Raymond Williams to launch the radical socialist journals, The New Reasoner and the New Left Review, and he ran the influential Centre for Contemporary Studies at Birmingham University. He has also taught at the Open University and has been working to establish an international centre for visual arts.

On Night Waves Stuart Hall talks to Philip Dodd about his intellectual and physical journey. They talk about the black Diaspora, Britain in the 1950's, Henry James, New Labour, and the role of the intellectual today - and much more besides!

Night Waves at 9.30pm on BBC Radio 3.


Presenter: Philip Dodd
Producer: Anthony Denselow