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On Night Waves tonight Philip Dodd examines the relationship between music and architecture as the latest in big-name architect concert halls opens in Porto. It is hoped Rem Koolhaas's Casa da Musica might provide the attention for Portugal's second city that The Sage has for Gateshead. But are we expecting too much of these buildings? Is the fact that they are expected to be world class concert venues, architectural icons and people's palaces too tall an order?

Philip Dodd also talks to the director Edgar Reitz as the third series of Heimat, a milestone in television history, is launched. The first two parts of this epic chronicle, shown on television and in cinemas around the world, have been compared to great literary narratives, and examine life in Germany through the most difficult period of its history, beginning in 1919. Inevitably this chronicle of the life of ordinary people has attracted controversy but has also been called 'the best of world television'. How will it cope as this third series reaches the more recent history of the 1990s, as Germans had to rethink their lives and their country, yet again?

And as a young artist claims to have committed crimes in the name of art - and attracted a fair amount of attention as a result - Night Waves looks at the history of art and crime from crucifixion to currency counterfeiting.

Join Philip Dodd and guests for all this and more on Night Waves, live tonight at 9.30pm, here on BBC Radio 3.


Presenter: Philip Dodd
Producer: Kirsty Pope




Additional Information:

Genghis Khan is on BBC1 on Monday 25th April at 9pm
Alfred Brendal gives the inaugural recital at Rem Koolhaas's Casa da Musica in Porto on Saturday 23rd April
Mark McGowan's photographs of cars being vandalised will now no longer be shown at The Arches in Glasgow for tonight's launch of the Glasgow International Festival.
Heimat 3 , directed by Edgar Reitz, is at the Renoir cinema in London from the 6th May and the first series is available on DVD, with the second series due soon and the third by the end of the year. In May BBC4 is beginning the entire three series, an episode a week.