Programme Details

The latex puppets of Fluck and Law's satirical television series Spitting Image earned a place in the national conscious in the 1980s. Irreverent, provocative and enormously popular, they caught - and some might argue, created - the mood of the nation at the height of Margaret Thatcher's premiership. In this evening's Night Waves , Paul Allen talks to the co-creator of Spitting Image , Roger Law, about life before, during and after the series.

Also in the programme, the actor John Malkovitch and the writer and director Terry Johnson on working together on a new play Lost Land by the British playwright Stephen Jeffreys for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, which opened last night.

And there's a taste of Hollywood, too, in a series of lectures and workshops in London this week. The School of Sound takes place over four days, and has invited a number of leading sound artists to discuss the craft of sound in television and film. Paul Allen will be joined by Walter Newman, sound supervisor on The West Wing and ER ; and four-times Oscar nominee for Best Sound, Tom Fleischmann, who has worked with directors including Jonathan Demme and Spike Lee, and who was responsible for the soundtrack in Martin Scorese's recent film The Aviator .

And there will be a first-night review of director Dominic Dromgoole's much-anticipated production of August Strindberg's Easter . It is arguably Strindberg's most tender play, dealing with forgiveness and the coincidences of life as the members of one family find themselves on the brink of ruin.

That's Night Waves with Paul Allen at 9.35pm.





Presenter: Paul Allen
Producer: Jerome Weatherald




Additional Details:

The School of Sound finishes at the South Bank Centre in London on Saturday
http://schoolofsound.co.uk/

Easter , by August Stindberg, is performed by the Oxford Stage Company at the Riverside Studios in London until 23rd April before moving on to the Lichfield Garrick
http://www.oxfordstage.co.uk/easter.html

Lost Land by Stephen Jeffreys is at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago
http://www.steppenwolf.org/

Still Spitting at Sixty by Roger Law is published by Harper Collins