Shelagh Stephenson
Tuesday 13 May 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to playwright Shelagh Stephenson about her latest work, The Long Road, addressing the repercussions of a futile murder. Plus the 2008 Turner Prize shortlist.
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Shelagh Stephenson
Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to the award winning playwright Shelagh Stephenson about her new work, The Long Road, which tells the story of the murder of a teenager and which was written in collaboration with Synergy, a group working with prisoners and ex-offenders.
The Long Road is on at the Soho Theatre from 19 May.
Terror's Advocate
Best known for defending Klaus Barbie and Slobodan Milosevic, the enigmatic French lawyer Jacques Verges met Pol Pot when they were students at the Sorbonne and married one of the key figures in the Algerian War of Independence. At the height of his career he disappeared without trace for eight years reappearing to take on the defence of terrorists around the world from Magdalena Kopp to Carlos the Jackal. Now Verges is the subject of a new documentary film, 'Terror's Advocate' by Barbet Schroeder and the lawyer Helena Kennedy joins Gabriel to review the film.
Terror's Advocate is in cinemas from 16 May
Robert Rauschenberg
Art critics Robert Hughes and Rachel Campbell-Johnston, alongside the artist Peter Blake, reflect on the life and work of American artist Robert Rauschenberg, who has died. Influenced by Bauhaus, he attended the influential Black Mountain School with the likes of John Cage and Merce Cunningham before going on to become one of the founders of Pop Art and one of America's most innovative and influential artists.
The Disrespect Agenda
When Boris Johnson was elected Mayor of London he announced a plan to create a chain of 'respect schools' in the capital in order to tackle youth crime. In a week that has seen two young people violently killed, many would perhaps be inclined to agree with Mayor Johnson - as a society, we need to rediscover respect. But writer and academic Lincoln Allison wouldn't be one of them - in his new book The Disrespect Agenda he argues that modern society is hamstrung by the notion of respect and that what we need in its place is a healthy sense of disrespect in order to resolve debates and difficulties. He's joined in studio by writer and critic Ziauddin Sardar, who believes this idea to be potentially disastrous.
The Disrespect Agenda, by Lincoln Allison, is out now.
