24 November 2005
Thursday 24 November 2005 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Paul Allen will be talking to Truman Capote's biographer Gerald Clarke and the novelist Paul Bailey about the publication of Capote's first, previously unpublished, novel 'Summer Crossing'.
Programme details
In Night Waves tomorrow evening/this evening Paul Allen will be talking to Truman Capote's biographer Gerald Clarke and the novelist Paul Bailey about the publication of Capote's first, previously unpublished, novel 'Summer Crossing'. The handwritten manuscript was discovered in an old trunk two years ago and sent for auction in New York . But was the decision to publish a book Capote claimed to have destroyed because it wasn't good enough the right one?
Also in the programme Professor Robert Winston will be talking about his new series for BBC 1, the Story of God, which examines the quest to understand the nature of God and the relationship between religious faith and science.
And the historian Richard Evans will be talking about The Goebbels Experiment, a new film which tells Goebbels' story using only his own diaries and archive film footage.
And, in the run up to the Turner Prize, Andrew Nairne will be joining Paul to make the case for Jim Lambie to win this year's prize.
Further Information
'The Story of God' begins on BBC1 on Sunday December 4 th .
'Summer Crossing' by Truman Capote is published by Penguin Classics
The Sacred Silver and Stained Glass Gallery opened this week at the V&A Museum in London .
'The Goebbels Experiment' can be seen on Sunday 27 th November at 6.30pm at the Curzon, Soho in London and then at the Festival of German Films in Dublin on December 2nd.
