The Prince
Tuesday 18 December 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Rana Mitter explores a new translation of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince, the famous treatise on the exercise of state power still resonant 500 years after it was published.
And the week-long series on the intellectual afterlife of the cultural heavyweights who have died this year discusses the legacy of French philosopher Jean Baudrillard.
Playlist
Machiavelli's The Prince
Rana Mitter discusses Machiavelli's The Prince as a new translation is published.
MP David Willets and political historian Quentin Skinner examine the world's most famous treatise on the exercise of state power and how it is still resonant 500 years after it was published.
Machiavelli's The Prince, translated by Peter Constantine is published by Vintage.
It will be BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week from the 7th To 11th January 2008.
History and the Western World
What impact has the study of the past had on the western world over the past 2500 years?
Rana talks to acclaimed historian John Burrow about his new book The History of Histories, what he calls a panoramic history of history itself.
John Burrow's The History of Histories is published by Allen Lane.
Much Ado about Nothing
Hot foot from the theatre, Night Waves will have the first night review of Nicholas Hytner's Much Ado about Nothing with Zoe Wanamaker and Simon Russell Beale in the lead roles of Shakespeare's dark comedy.
The play runs at the Olivier Theatre, at the National Theatre, London, until 10th January 2008.
Cultural Legacies- Jean Baudrillard
In the second of the week's series on the legacies of leading cultural figures who have died this year, Rana is joined by writer Steve Connor, and lecturer in communications studies Paul Taylor, to assess the lasting influence of the French philosopher and sociologist Jean Baudrillard.
Baudrillard and the Media: A Critical Introduction by William Merrin is published by Polity Press.
The Conspiracy of Art by Jean Baudrillard is published by MIT Press.
The Cool Memories series by by Jean Baudrillard are published by Verso Books.
Simulacra and Simulation (The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) by Jean Baudrillard is published by University of Michigan Press.
The Spirit of Terrorism by Jean Baudrillard is published by Verso Books.
More on Jean Baudrillard's work can be found on the online journal International Journal Of Baudrillard Studies.
