David Lodge
Monday 21 April 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Matthew Sweet talks to writer David Lodge about his new novel, Deaf Sentence, about a man coming to terms with growing deafness and the feeling that his world seems to be shrinking.
Ed Murrow
American Journalist Ed Murrow
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David Lodge
Matthew is joined in the studio by the author David Lodge to talk about his new novel Deaf Sentence, a book about a man dealing with hearing loss and the comedy and tragedy that plays out in his life as a result.
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge is published by Harvill.
Ed Murrow
The veteran American correspondent in London Tom Fenton pays homage to the God Father of journalists reporting across the Pond -Ed Murrow - on what would have been Murrow's one hundredth birthday, and remembers his extraordinary broadcasts from the frontline of the London Blitz. Journalist Richard C Hottelet talks about working with Ed Murrow during the Blitz.
John Wheeler
Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees remembers John Wheeler, the man who coined the term 'Black Hole' and takes us deeper into current thinking on this darkly elusive phenomenon.
Spiritualists
As the 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act - fought for by the spiritualists of its day - is made obsolete by a new EU directive, writer Ruth Brandon, author of 'The Spiritualist' explains how the movement began.
