2 February 2007
Friday 2 February 2007 21:30-22:00 (Radio 3)
Matthew Sweet with another edition of the arts and ideas programme.
Les demoiselles d'Avignon: Museum of Modern Art
Les demoiselles d'Avignon by Picasso
Playlist
Troy Kennedy Martin
Matthew Sweet talks to Troy Kennedy Martin, one of Britain's most celebrated writers for television and film, about his career.
His first success was with the creation of Z-Cars which became the template for television police drama before moving on to the Sweeney and Colditz among many other series.
Then, in 1983 he wrote what became perhaps his finest work, Edge of Darkness, the apocalyptic political thriller starring Bob Peck.
Irene Nemirovsky
The French novelist Irene Nemirovsky came to British readers' attention when her final novel Suite Francaise was first published last year.
In fact the novel, set in the year when France fell to the Nazis, had been begun in 1941 but was never finished: Irene Nemirovsky died in Auschwitz in 1942.
Now Nemirovsky's David Golder, the novel with which she made her name in 1929, is republished and the novelist and critic A.S. Byatt joins Matthew in the studio to discuss her work.
Black Audio Film Collective
And Matthew examines the legacy of the Black Audio Film Collective which in the 1980s pioneered an experimental approach to documentaries on the black experience in Britain, most notably with its award-winning film made in 1986 about the Handsworth riots in Birmingham. Matthew is joined by the film's director John Akomfrah and independent producer Marc Booth to discuss how approaches to films on black issues have changed in the last twenty years.
