Programme Details

The legend of Caravaggio is as vivid as his work. He was celebrated as the most original and influential Italian painter of the seventeenth century, while also being reviled in some quarters as a heretic and a sensualist. He killed a man in a duel, and before his own mysterious and untimely death in 1610 he had spent four years as a fugitive. In all this time he still managed to paint, and this week an exhibition concentrating on this later work opens at the National Gallery in London. In Night Waves Susan Hitch will be discussing Caravaggio's achievement and his life with the art critic, Rachel Campbell Johnston, and the painter, Brad Lochore.

There will also be an assessment of Welsh National Opera's new production of Wozzeck, which with La Traviata opens the company's first season at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff .

And the writer, Kazuo Ishiguro will be talking about his latest novel, Never Let Me Go - a devastating vision of the late nineteen nineties, but not quite as we know them.

For all this and a review of Kevin Bacon's new film,The Woodsman, join Susan Hitch on Night Waves.

Night Waves, live at 9.30pm, here on BBC Radio 3.


Presenter: Susan Hitch
Producer: Zahid Warley



Additional Information:
1) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is published by Faber and Faber.
2) Alban Berg's Wozzeck , directed by Richard Jones and conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, is at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.
3) Caravaggio: The Final Years is at the National Gallery in London from February 23 - May 22
4) The Woodsman (15), directed by Nicole Kassell and starring Kevin Bacon, is released on Friday.