24 October 2006
Tuesday 24 October 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Isabel Hilton talks to Journalist Adam Lebor and the former diplomat Carne Ross about the role of the United Nations in an age when genocide has become so dangerous.
Playlist
The United Nations
The United Nations was set up to prevent conflict and warfare from breaking out around the world. But how successful has it been in the face of genocide?
"Complicity with evil" is a book by the journalist Adam Lebor that, as its title implies, is less than complimentary about the UN's handling of genocide.
So is the UN really complicit with evil? Isabel Hilton talks to Adam Lebor and the former diplomat Carne Ross about the role of the United Nations.
Geling Yan
Geling Yan left China and her native city of Shanghai for America after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
She has now written her first novel in English, a thriller set amongst the factory workers of contemporary China.
Geling Yan talks to Isabel Hilton about "The Uninvited" and some of the extraordinary narratives that are emerging from China as millions of people move to cities in the biggest migration in human history.
The North Sea
In the second Night Waves commission on the North Sea, the anthropologist Thomas Hylland describes what the sea means from his viewpoint in Norway.
Filmic Theatre
Isabel Hilton discusses the new trend for returning to the books that have inspired famous films like Vertigo, The Third Man and Don't Look Now - and turning them into filmic theatre.
