24 April 2007
Tuesday 24 April 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Terry Frost's Blue Squeeze
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Playlist
Fallujah
Fallujah, a city around the size of Edinburgh, lies on the banks of the Euphrates, West of Baghdad. Within Iraq it is known as the "city of mosques" and it is a famous centre of Sunni Islam. It is now a city in ruins, a place repeatedly attacked by American forces who are accused of using napalm and white phosphorous on the civilian population.
The true story of Fallujah, and its present reality, has never really emerged.
A new play by Jonathan Holmes, based on testimony from soldiers, aid workers, clerics, politicians and civilians, attempts to tell the true story of the attack on Fallujah.
The play is designed by the artist Lucy Orta and has music by Nitin Sawney.
In tonight's Night Waves, Philip Dodd talks to Jonathan Holmes and the journalist Nir Rosen who has spent months in the city.
How can a drama help explain the disaster and the significance of Fallujah?
And what might the events in Fallujah mean for the future of Iraq?
Terry Frost
Terry Frost discovered art as a prisoner of war during World War Two.
He went on to become one of this country's best known abstract painters, depicting the simple shapes of his beloved Cornish landscape in bold and vibrating colours.
As a new retrospective opens Philip Dodd and guests discuss the legacy of Terry Frost.
Shane Meadows
Also on the programme; Film maker Shane Meadows talks about his latest film "This is England" that explores a British childhood spent as part of a skinhead gang.
The Orwell Prize
And Philip Dodd talks to the winner of the Orwell Prize, awarded tonight to the writer who has best achieved Orwell's aim to make political writing into an art.
Night Waves, presented by Philip Dodd, live this Tuesday night at 9.45 here on BBC Radio 3.
