Bernard MacLaverty
Tuesday 2 May 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Paul Allen reviews Fateless, a Holocaust drama based on the acclaimed novel by Nobel Prize laureate and concentration camp survivor Imre Kertész.
Playlist
'Fateless'
Karen Leeder reviews a new a new film based on the Nobel Prize winning book "Fateless" by Imre Kertesz . It's about the Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust and is seen from the perspective of a 14 year old boy who is shuttled between concentration camps. The film suggests that happiness and beauty can co-exist along with deprivation and despair.
'Fateless' is released on May 3 rd certificate 12A.
'Ennio Morricone'
In an appreciation of the work of film composer Ennio Morricone, enthusiast Sir Christopher Frayling listens to a new CD of some of his greatest scores. Ennio Morricone was made famous by the Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone and has composed more than 400 film scores to date.
Ennio Morricone, The Man and His Music' is released by Warner Classics.
'The Ministry of Pain'
Dubravka Ugresic is interviewed about her new book The Ministry of Pain. It's a powerful novel set in the aftermath of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Tanja Lucic is a young professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam where her students are like her, ex-Yugoslavs, refuges and exiles. Amid the tense political climate of the war crime trials at the Hague, the novel explores a growing attraction between Tanja and her student Igor, an attraction part sexual and part psychologically probing: can future generations be spared the horror and suffering they have just witnessed.
'Ministry of Pain' is published by SAQI.
'The English Civil War A Peoples' History'
A new book by Dianne Purkiss in which she aims to tell the story of this era not just as the battle of ideas, but as the histories of the characters who conceived them from Cromwell and John Milton to witchfinders and revolutionairies. Historian Justin Champion reviews.
'The English Civil War A People's History' is published by Harper Press.
'The Becks Futures Award'
Night Waves talks to the winner of 'The Becks Futures Award for most innovative and exciting artist announced by Institute of Contemporary Arts.
To find out more contact, www.becksfutures.co.uk .
