Programme Details

Philip Dodd assesses Al Pacino's performance as Shylock in the new film version of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. 

There's also a review of another Hollywood star, Holly Hunter, as she appears on stage in Marina Carr's new play, By the Bog of Cats, as it opens in London

And to mark seven hundred years of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France, the poets Robert Crawford and Richard Price examine the two countries' literary affinities.


Night Waves, live at 9.30pm on BBC Radio 3


Presenter: Philip Dodd
Producer: Zahid Warley



Additional Information:
1) Merchant of Venice (PG) by Michael Radford is on general release from Friday 3 December.
2) By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr is running at Wyndham's Theatre in London.
3) The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia and Knowledge Since The 1750s by Robert Crawford is published by Oxford University Press.
4) Lucky Day by Richard Price will be published by Carcanet in February.
5) Telling Tales - the anthology edited by Nadine Gordimer is published by Bloomsbury. If you want to know more about the campaign that will benefit from the book's sales, Treatment Action Campaign's website address is www.tac.org.za