Peter Brook
Wednesday 9 May 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Philip Dodd explores how the split screen - a device that has fallen in and out of fashion for movie directors ever since the 1920s - has been deployed by everyone from TV soaps to cutting-edge video artists and asks whether in a digital age of increasing visual sophistication the split screen could become a natural feature of film-making rather than an experimental oddity.
Sir Peter Brook
Sir Peter Brook 
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Peter Brook
Philip Dodd meets the theatre director Peter Brook.
He looks back on one of the most consistently innovative careers in European theatre, and talks about his current work.
Philosophy
Night Waves also discusses the state of contemporary philosophy and the way it is increasingly deriving its systems and ways of thinking from modern science.
Philip is joined by three leading philosophers from very different schools of thought to talk about their response to the scientific revolution and its impact on the subject today.
Sixty Years of the Cannes Film Festival
The film historian Chris Darke joins Philip to mark sixty years of the Cannes film festival by talking about another notable date in its history: 1973.
