Michael Nyman
Tuesday 18 September 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Composer Michael Nyman tells Rana Mitter about his new work, 50,000 Pairs Of Feet Can't Be Wrong.
A Mighty Heart
Angelina Jolie as Marianne Pearl in A Mighty Heart
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Michael Nyman
Rana Mitter talks to Michael Nyman about his new composition, inspired by the Great North Run and opening in Gateshead this week.
50,000 Pairs of Feet Can't Be Wrong will premier at Sage Gateshead on 20 September.
Terrorism and Poverty
Rana also investigates the connections made between terrorism and poverty, by figures ranging from George Bush to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
A new book by economist Alan Kreuger argues that this idea is a falsehood that is not supported by evidence. In fact, he argues, most terrorists come from middle-class, educated backgrounds.
Award-winning writer Hari Kunzru is also in the studio, whose new novel is about a middle-class man whose violent political past catches up with him.
What Makes A Terrorist: Economics and the Root of Terrorism by Alan B. Krueger is published by Princeton University Press
My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru is published by Hamish Hamilton
A Mighty Heart
And Rana hears the verdict on the Michael Winterbottom film that tells the story of journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan, from the perspective of his wife, Marianne.
Writer Frances Stonor Saunders reviews, whose own work has recently been read by Gordon Brown while gathering ideas for defeating terrorism.
A Mighty Heart is released nationwide on 21 September, certificate 15.
Who Paid The Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders is published by Granta
