Programme Details

On Night Waves this evening the artist Sam Taylor-Wood explains why she asked male film stars to cry and how she found freedom in being tied up;

There's a review of the first novel in a decade by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which has been forced into publication a week early because pirates were selling illegal copies on the streets of Columbia.
Does it live up to expectation?

How might East Enders look transposed to Shanghai or Mexico?
This is the task Mexican performance artist Pablo Helguera has set himself in his first London show in which he aims to reveal the way soap operas reflect the cultural identity of a country;

Also on tonight's Night Waves there's a review of Look at Me the French film that won Best Screenplay award at Cannes;

And in the centenary week of the New York metro system Joe Queenan explores the link between the city's psyche and its subway.

Join Isabel Hilton for Night Waves at 9.30pm on Radio 3.