20 April 2006
Thursday 20 April 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Christina Lamb talks to Philip about her new book, House of Stone, which charts the disintegration of Zimbabwe from the point of view of a white farmer and the black nanny who looked after his children.
Playlist
Award-winning foreign correspondent Christina Lamb is Philip Dodd's guest on Night Waves tonight. Since 1994 she's reported on Robert Mugabe's increasingly despotic grip on Zimbabwe, telling the stories of ordinary people - black and white - in a country sliding into chaos. Following the ban on British journalists reporting from the country, she has made repeated undercover trips there, despite the dangers, and was the first journalist to report on Operation Murambatswina, or 'Clean Up the Filth', which saw the homes of hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans demolished.
Fifty years ago next week, Prime Minster Anthony Eden appeared on television screens around the country. It was the first time a British government minister had made such a broadcast - Cold War historian Richard Aldrich reports on the ticklish diplomatic background to a broadcasting first.
Also in the programme, Susannah Clapp reviews the RSC's new production of Anthony and Cleopatra, starring Patrick Stewart and Harriet Walter; what the West Yorkshire Police and Screen Yorkshire had to say about the original title of a new film, PS, by Navdeep Kandola; and Druin Burch on the latest scheme to improve the doctor-patient relationship - making medics read literature....
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
House of Stone by Christina Lamb is out now, published by HarperCollins.
Anthony and Cleopatra is at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, until October 14th.
Richard Aldrich is the author of The Faraway War: Personal Diaries of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, published by Doubleday.
PS by Navdeep Kandola will be screened at the Renoir Cinema in London on 29th April.
Druin Burch writes The Sceptic column for the Guardian.
