6 Mar 06
Monday 6 March 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Susan Hitch and guests debate Confucius, including the idea that culture and music, in particular, has a real moral force, encouraging kindness, sensitivity and upright moral character.
Susan also talks to Author David Maine about his new book 'Fallen', based on the biblical story of Cain and Abel and Frank Whitford reviews the new Albers and Moholy-Nagy exhibition opening at the Tate Modern.
Playlist
On Monday's Night Waves, folk legend Joan Baez talks to Susan Hitch about her forty year career - from the sixties, when she sang freedom songs to civil rights protesters and campaigned for a wide range of human rights causes, via collaborations with Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, and Peter Gabriel, to the present day, and her new live album Bowery Songs.
As a new exhibition of their work opens at Tate Modern, Night Waves will also be focussing on the influence and legacy of two Bauhaus pioneers - Josef Albers and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Art historian Frank Whitford on the aims and ideals of a movement which encompassed art, architecture, photography and design.
If you've ever felt the bible was just a little terse where the everyday lives of its major figures were concerned, then author David Maine may be able to help. His new novel Fallen re-imagines the events that led up to Cain's murder of Abel - sibling jealously, family squabbles and all.
And Tao Tao Liu of Oxford University discusses Confucius.
Additional information:
Fallen by David Maine is published by Canongate
Albers and Moholy-Nagy is at Tate Modern in London from 9 March until 4 June.
Joan Baez's new album Bowery Songs is released on 6 February on the Proper label.
