27 March 2006
Monday 27 March 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Philip Dodd talks to the novelist and travel writer Jenny Diski about her new book, On Trying to Keep Still - a quest which took her to New Zealand, Dorset and Lapland...
Playlist
On tonight's Night Waves Philip Dodd meets the novelist and travel writer Jenny Diski - whose new book, perhaps uniquely in the annals of travel writing, is about trying to keep still.
As a new exhibition, Satirical London, prepares to open on April Fools' Day, Philip is joined by cartoonist Martin Rowson and novelist Howard Jacobson to discuss how today's satirical barbs can be sharpened by a tour through the lampoons, jibes and caricatures of the last three hundred years.
The centre-left American journalist Paul Berman tells Philip how the life stories of two young Sixties radicals illuminate the journey of some on the left from student extremism to support for humanitarian military intervention - and whether the Iraq War marks the death of this ideal.
And as a writer manages the near-impossible feat of creating an exciting car chase not in a movie but on the pages of a book, the novelist Lawrence Norfolk joins Philip to discuss the things prose fiction can't do.
That's all on Night Waves tonight at 9.30 here on BBC Radio 3.
Additional Information
Jenny Diski's On Trying to Keep Still is published by Time Warner on 6 April.
Satirical London opens at the Museum of London on 1 April.
www.museumoflondon.org.uk
Patrick Quinlan's novel, Smoked, is published by Headline on 27 March.
Power and the Idealists by Paul Berman is out now, published by Soft Skull Press.
