Michael Frayn
Tuesday 10 June 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Philip Dodd talks to Michael Frayn about his new play Afterlife, due to open at the National Theatre, and which focuses on Austrian impresario and founder of the Salzburg Festival, Max Reinhardt. Plus Sidney Blumenthal, a former advisor to Bill Clinton, discussing his new book The Strange Death of Republican America.
Sidney Blumenthal
Photograph by Robert Goddyn
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Sidney Blumenthal
Philip Dodd talks to the American journalist Sidney Blumenthal, best known as a former adviser to Bill Clinton. Blumenthal's new book is a provocative study entitled The Strange Death Of Republican America. In a series of essays, Blumenthal argues that American Republicanism is in dramatic decline, with roots which come out of Richard Nixon's legacy and its influence on key contemporary Republicans such as Dick Cheney and Karl Rove.
The Strange Death of Republican America by Sidney Blumenthal is published by Union Square.
Michael Frayn
The acclaimed playwright Michael Frayn discusses his new work, Afterlife, which tells the story of the Austrian impresario and founder of the Salzburg Festival, Max Reinhardt.
Afterlife runs at the National Theatre until Saturday 16 August.
TV Victorian mania
Have we reached saturation point with television dramas and documentaries on the Victorian era? With a new Channel 4 docu-drama probing Dickens's private life, Night Waves asks the historian Jeffrey Richards and the writer DJ Taylor to make their case for reclaiming or ditching the Victorians from the small screen.
Dickens Secret Lover is on Channel 4 on Monday 16 June at 9pm.
A How To to 21st Century Protest
In an age of increasingly niche protestors, from Plane Stupid to drunken tube revellers, Night Waves finds out how to organise your very own 21st century protest with the help of journalist and new-protest guru Bibi van der Zee.
Rebel, Rebel: The Protestor's Handbook by Bibi van der Zee is published by Guardian Books.
