24 October 2005
Monday 24 October 2005 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
For absolute power read Rome …for absolute terror read Cormac McCarthy…and for absolutely the last word listen to Night Waves.
Programme details
What features full frontal nudity, violence and bad language and will be seen on screens all over the country next month? I can hear you thinking... the latest reality TV show… a special enhanced edition of Coronation Street… the news? But you’d be wrong on all counts --- its Rome… the new sixty three million pound television series about the collapse of the Republic which has been co-produced by the BBC and the American broadcaster, HBO. In Night Waves this evening Isabel Hilton discusses the first episode of this 12 part blockbuster with the historians, Mary Beard and Tom Holland and explores our abiding fascination with swords and sandals. Isabel will also be taking the measure of the new book by Cormac McCarthy…. “No Country for Old Men” -- his first since he completed the monumental “Border Trilogy” and there will be a discussion of the achievement of the photographer and film maker, William Eggleston. That’s all in Night Waves with Isabel Hilton here on BBC Radio 3 at nine thirty this evening.
Additional information:
1) Rome – Episode one will be broadcast on Wednesday 2nd November at 2100 on BBC Two.
2) Cormac McCarthy’s new book, No country for Old Men, is published by Picador.
3) Michael Almereyda’s film – William Eggleston in the Real World opens a series of his films at the ICA in London on Thursday 17th November. The season runs until 1st December.
