21 February 2006
Tuesday 21 February 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Susan Hitch and guests discuss the ethical issues thrown up by Philip Seymour Hoffman's Oscar nominated portrayal of Truman Capote.
Programme Details
In Night Waves tonight, Susan Hitch will be talking to the poet John Burnside about his new memoir about his relationship with an alcoholic father. He discusses his own past as a heavy drinker and drug addict and how the fractured relationship affects his work.
Also in the programme, Kathryn Hughes and Andrew O'Hagan will be in the studio to discuss the new film Capote, an account of the writing of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood about the brutal killing of a family in Kansas in 1959. They'll be discussing Janet Malcolm's book The Journalist and the Murderer which explores the difficult relationship between the writer and their subject - does the writer inevitably betray the subject and does the killer inevitably deceive the writer?
Also, the art critic Richard Cork will be in the studio to review the new exhibition at the National Gallery in London. Americans in Paris 1860 to 1900 looks at a group of artists including John Singer Sargent and Whistler who came to the French capital in the final decades of the nineteenth century.
That's all in Night Waves, live at 9.30 this Tuesday evening, presented by Susan Hitch here on BBC Radio 3.
Additional Information:
1) A Lie About My Father by John Burnside is published by Jonathan Cape.
2) Capote is on general release, Certificate 15.
3) The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm is published by Granta.
4) Americans in Paris is at the National Gallery in London until 21 May.
