Othello
Thursday 24 May 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Playlist
Everyday Life
Philip Dodd and his guests discuss the value of studying the aspects of daily life that we normally ignore.
Things as apparently banal as making toast, crossing the road or sitting on a sofa.
Philip is joined by the author of a new study of the everyday, Joe Moran, and by the writer Kevin Jackson, who explains how eighteenth-century essayists, French intellectuals and British sociologists have found interest in the inherently dull.
Othello at the Globe
Philip is joined by Susannah Clapp to review the first night of a new production of Shakespeare's Othello, the first to be staged in the authentic surroundings of the Globe Theatre.
Henry Moore
Join Night Waves on a tour of Hoglands, the house and studio where sculptor Henry Moore lived from the forties until his death.
The brain child of David Mitchinson who worked at the house with Moore from 1968, the house is about to open to the public for the first time... and is arranged to appear as though he has just stepped out of the room.
Richard Cork reports on what it tells us about Henry Moore, the man and his work.
Laurence Oliver and John Wayne turn 100
John Wayne and Laurence Olivier would both be one hundred this month - what would they be like and what possible connections might the two actors share?
