23 January 2006
Monday 23 January 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Australian author and Orange prize-winner, Kate Grenville, will be discussing her latest novel 'The Secret River' with Paul Allen.
Programme Details
In 1972 an unprecedented terrorist attack unfolded live before 900 million television viewers across the world. During the Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes were taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group. In retaliation, a secret Israeli assassination squad was dispatched to avenge the killings. The controversial story of revenge is told by director Steven Spielberg in his latest film "Munich". In Night Waves this evening Paul Allen will be discussing the movie with expert in international relations and terrorism, Prof. Adam Roberts and film critic and historian Ian Christie.
And Australian author, and Orange prize-winner Kate Grenville will be discussing her latest novel The Secret River. It's a dramatic and evocative historical novel set between the slums of 19th century London and the convict colonies of Australia. Following a childhood marked by poverty and petty crime, William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported, with his family, to New South Wales where he discovers he has to make an agonising choice. Kate reveals the source of her inspiration and the nature of her painstaking research.
Theatre and film director Robert LePage talks about his one-man show at the Barbican theatre, based on the life of Hans Christian Anderson. It's far from a conventional version. LePage's story-telling moves between three centuries and explores the darker side of the restless artist with questions of sexual identity, unfulfilled fantasies and a thirst for recognition and fame.
And Italy's A6 motor-way, known as the verdemare or the green sea, reaches its 50th Anniversary. Design historian Stephen Bayley discusses why Italians feel a need to celebrate.
Addition information
Steven Spielberg's film Munich is in cinemas nationwide from 27th January.
The Secret River by Kate Grenville is published by Cannongate Books on 2nd February.
Robert Lepage, The Andersen Project is at London's Barbican Theatre from 26th January to 11th February
