28 March 2006
Tuesday 28 March 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney talks to Susan Hitch about his latest collection, District and Circle, which includes poems on a childhood spent safe from the horrors of the Second World War.
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In Night Waves tonight, Susan Hitch talks to the Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney. Forty years after the publication of his first book, Death of a Naturalist, Heaney's new collection, District and Circle, includes poems on a childhood spent safe from the horror of World War II alongside poems coloured by present day anxieties, including the July 7th bombings in London last year.
We talk to writer Carmen Calill about her new book, Bad Faith, which tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier 'de Pellepoix', Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who managed the Vichy government's dirty work, 'controlling' its Jewish population.
Also, the artist Ian Stephenson epitomised 60s cool when his paintings appeared in Antonioni's film Blow Up. As an exhibition of Stephenson's work opens at Baltic in Gateshead the artist Sean Scully talks to Susan about Stephenson, who taught him at art school in Newcastle.
That's all on Night Waves with Susan Hitch tonight at 21:30, here on Radio Three.
Additional information:
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney is published by Faber.
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Calill is published by Jonathan Cape.
And Our Eyes Scan Time: British Abstract Painting by James Hugonin and Ian Stephenson is at Baltic in Gateshead from Saturday 8 April to Sunday 25 June.
