16 January 2006
Monday 16 January 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Isabel Hilton presents the arts and ideas magazine, including news of the winner of the 2005 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry and an interview with writer Michael Moorcock.
Programme Details
Judas Iscariot has been reviled for 2000 years as Christ's betrayer. As the Vatican open an enquiry into his reputation, Night Waves asks religious commentator Clifford Longley and Gaza Vermes, Author of Who's Who in the Age of Jesus, whether the thirteenth disciple deserves his reputation and why the Vatican chooses now to rehabilitate him.
As the adventures of his anti hero Colonel Pyat draw to a close, Michael Moorcock tells Isabel Hilton about a prolific life in fiction that began age sixteen when he edited Tarzan Adventures and has seen him relate the advetures of androgenous spy Jerry Cornelius and collaborate with JG Ballard and Eduardo Paolozzi on the iconic magazine New Worlds.
Booker prize winning novelist Antonia Byatt reviews Tale of Tales, the mysterious masterpiece of award winning Russian animator Yuri Norstein.
And as Carol Ann Duffy wins the TS Eliot prize, Hull poet Sean O'Brien talks about the public and private life of the poet.
Additional Information:
Antonia Byatt will be taking part in a special screening of Tale of Tales at the Curzon Soho in London on 19 January.
Geza Vermes is the Author of Who's Who in the Time of Jesus, published by Penguin.
Michael Moorcock's The Vengance of Rome is out now, published by Jonathan Cape.
Carol Ann Duffy's Rapture is pulished by Picador.
