12 September 2005
Monday 12 September 2005 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Zadie Smith talks live about her new Booker shortlisted novel On Beauty and is violence and boredom threatening the future of television news? Nightwaves discusses.
Programme Details
Novelist Zadie Smith joins Philip Dodd live in the Night Waves studio this evening to talk about her new book On Beauty which has just been shortlisted for the Booker prize and to explain her recently reported comments that England was a 'disgusting place'.
Television news as we know and value it is under imminent threat of extinction from jaded audiences, new technology and increased competition claims a new book. Philip talks to its author and Sky News editor Simon Bucks about whether images of violence and carnage are colonising the current affairs agenda and what should be done about it.
And Philip hears from Dublin about a 1968 documentary that so affronted the Republic in the way it portrayed life in Ireland that it was banned for more than three decades and has never yet been shown on Irish television. As it finally gets a release, Fintan O'Toole reflects on Dublin then and now and the picture it paints of Irish theocratic politics in the late 60s.
Presenter: Philip Dodd
Producer: Kirsty Pope
Additional Information
Zadie Smith's On Beauty is in the shops now published by Hamish Hamilton.
Peter Lennon's 1968 documentary Rocky Road to Dublin is in selected cinemas nationwide from 16th September; dates confirmed so far:
16 Sep - ICA, London
27 Sep - York Picturehouse
30 Sep - Cine Lumiere
03 Oct - IFI Dublin
07 Oct - Cornerhouse Manchester
07 Oct - Arnolfini Bristol
24 Oct - Kerry Film Festival TBC
26 Oct - MAC Birmingham
09 Nov - QFT Belfast
Jean Seaton's Carnage and the Media is in the shops now published by Allen Lane
An exhibition of the work of Eileen Gray is at the Design Museum in London from the 17th September to the 8th January
