17 June 2008
Tuesday 17 June 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Rachel Campbell-Johnston and guests review the new BBC4 series Jews, which explores what it means to be Jewish in Britain today. Plus James Cuno discussing cultural restitution.
Cy Twombly
![Cy Twombly Wilder Shores of Love (Bassano in Teverina) 1985 Cy Twombly Collection © Cy twombly Oil-based house paint, oil paint [paint stick], coloured pencil, lead pencil on wooden panel 140 x 120 cm]()
Cy Twombly
Wilder Shores of Love (Bassano in Teverina) 1985
Cy Twombly Collection © Cy twombly
Oil-based house paint, oil paint [paint stick], coloured pencil, lead pencil on wooden panel
140 x 120 cm
Playlist
Jews in Britain
Rachel Campbell-Johnston discusses three documentaries which offer an unprecedented insight into Jewish life in Britain today. Made by award winning filmmaker Vanessa Engle, the series examines religion, orthodoxy and secularism through the beliefs and culture of very different kinds of Jews from the atheist and secular Jews through to the ultra-orthodox. Novelist Naomi Alderman and historian David Cesarani join Rachel to talk about the series.
Jews by Vanessa Engle is broadcast on BBC 4 from 18 June to 2 July.
Antiquities
Plus - who owns antiquity? In his new book, James Cuno, the director of the Art Institute of Chicago explores the impact of recent claims by modern nations to antiquities and makes an powerful defence of the side of museums in the struggle over their aquisition. He is joined by former director of Manchester museums Tristram Besterman to discuss cultural property and where antiquities really belong.
Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage by James Cuno is published by Princeton University Press.
Cy Twombly
As a major solo retrospective of the work of abstract painter Cy Twombly in fifteen years opens at Tate Modern in London, Brad Lochore discusses the artist and his paintings.
Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons is on at the Tate Modern from 17 June.
Selima Hill
And poet Selima Hill explores the boundaries between humans and animals, mixing the everyday and the surreal as she sets life at an angle in The Hat - her new collection of poems.
The Hat by Selima Hill is published by Bloodaxe.
