David Reynolds
Tuesday 29 January 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Isabel Hilton talks to a human rights lawyer about the plight of women in Pakistan. Plus a TV series on political summits and a film about life near China's Three Gorges Dam.
Playlist
David Reynolds
Historian David Reynolds discusses his television series exploring the role of the Summit in shaping the course of history. From Chamberlain's meeting with Hitler in 1938 to Reagan and Gorbachev's Geneva summit in '85 Reynolds reveals what really went on behind the curtains and how the leaders' personalities and chemistry were crucial to the political outcome.
Summits is broadcast on BBC 4 starting on Wednesday 30 January at 9pm.
Still Life
Xiaoxiao Sun joins Isabel to review the Chinese film Still Life - a fictional story of ordinary life and struggle set against the backdrop of China's controversial Three Gorges Dam project - and a recent surprise winner of the Venice Film Festival.
Still Life opens at the BFI on Friday 1 February.
Asma Jahangir
Isabel Hilton is joined by Pakistan's leading Human Rights lawyer, Asma Jahangir. Recently named woman of the year by Time Magazine Asma is particularly concerned about the plight of women in Pakistan and the worldwide rise of religious intolerance. She looks at the boundary between human rights and the right to express religious belief.
Asma Jahangir's lecture "The Tolerance Policy: Way Out or Compromise?" is on 30 January at 5.30 pm, at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford.
Dido and Aeneas
Plus site specific theatre by royal appointment. As a modern production of Dido and Aeneas becomes the first play to be staged at a royal palace for many years, Isabel looks at the history of royal theatre.
Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christophe Marlowe opens at Kensington Palace on the 1 February.
