Lou Reed
Monday 30 June 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Bidisha talks to Lou Reed about the upcoming screen version of his 1973 album Berlin which was panned at the time of release, but is today regarded by many as a classic.
Lou Reed
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Lou Reed
Lou Reed discusses his bleak masterpiece Berlin which is the subject of a new film and his latest tour. He talks to Bidisha about the agony of writing, which books he was reading when he wrote Berlin and how what he really wanted to do was act.
Berlin, the album by Lou Reed and the film by Julian Schnabel, are out now.
Janet Frame
Author of "An Angel At My Table", Janet Frame wrote her book "Towards Another Summer" in 1963. At the time it was deemed too personal for publication but now the novel is being published posthumously. Bidisha discusses the book with critic Michelle Roberts.
Janet Frame's novel "Towards Another Summer" is out this week, published by Virago.
Man on Wire
In August 1974 a young French wire walker stepped out onto a wire he and a gang of his friends had strung between the towers of the World Trade Center in New York. He walked back and forth as dawn broke, without a harness or a net, to the wonderment of the city below. The story of the walk has been made into a film and tonight Bidisha talks to filmmaker James Marsh and to the wire walker Philippe Petit.
Man On Wire is at the National Film Theatre on Wednesday July 2nd with a Q&A with Philippe Petit and James Marsh. It opens nationwide on August 1st certificate 12A.
Fallout
And playwright Roy Williams brings his play Fallout about the aftermath of the murder of a teenage boy by a gang in London to television...Night Waves discusses its transition to the screen and its desolate portrayal of life on a London estate.
Fallout is on Channel Four on Thursday evening at 10pm.
