Alan Strachan joins Philip Dodd to give the first verdict on a major new revival of Harold Pinter's play The Birthday Party, starring Henry Goodman and Eileen Atkins, as it opens in London's West End.
Dominic Sandbrook's new book is a revisionist take on the era of The Birthday Party - the late Fifties and early Sixties - and is the first major study of this period by a historian born on the Seventies. He and Philip Collins of the Social Market Foundation explore the ever more ambiguous legacy of the Sixties in today's political climate as the decade recedes into history.
Philip talks to the renowned British-Ghanaian philosopher Anthony Appiah about his new work on the vexed question of identity.
And then there's EE Cummings - with the publication of the first biography for a quarter of a century, Night Waves explores the little known story of the great American poet's political voyage through the wilderness. That's all on Night Waves with Philip Dodd tonight at 9.30pm.
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