Caryl Phillips
Thursday 13 September 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Philip Dodd talks to writer Caryl Phillips about his new book Foreigners, which explores the tragic, resonant lives of three black British men.
Caryl also explains what led him to rework Simon Schama's history of the abolition of the slave trade, Rough Crossings, as a play.
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Carlyl Phillips
Philip Dodd talks to acclaimed author Caryl Phillips about his new book, Foreigners, which mixes reportage, fiction and biography to reveal the tragic stories of three black Englishmen.
Phillips explains how the seemingly disparate narratives, spanning from the 18th century to the nineteen sixties, speak of the complex role of the foreigner in English society and why, twenty years into his writing career, he feels the themes of identity and race are as urgent as ever.
Foreigners is published by Secker and Warburg.
The Golden Age of Political Behaviour
Daily Mail political columnist Peter Oborne explains why he thinks a distinct 'political class' has triumphed in Britain, trampling old traditions of integrity and duty, and wreaking havoc on our democracy. Pioneering New Labour thinker Professor Anthony Giddens begs to differ.
Lee Miller
Philip reviews a new exhibition of the photographs of Lee Miller, ranging far beyond her early portraits of the famous, through her surrealist work to her photojournalism during the Second World War.
The Art of Lee Miller runs at the V & A museum, London from September 15th to January 6th 2008.
Click here to view the Night Waves Henry Moore gallery
Frank Lloyd Wright
Fifty years on from his death, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright is deeply cherished by his fellow Americans.
So what happens when one of the many unbuilt designs he left behind is transformed into a new 21st century construction? The architect Thomas Heinz found out the answer when he built Massaro House, based on one of Wright's papers plans - upsetting many Wright afficiandos.
Thomas Heinz tells Philip why he believes the building helps to secure Wright's legacy rather than to undermine it - and why it's Frank Lloyd Wright's best work to date.
