The Plastic People
Tuesday 23 January 2007 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Fiona Shaw
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Fiona Shaw
The actress Fiona Shaw talks to Philip Dodd on tonight's Night Waves, about her role in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days at the National Theatre, directed by Deborah Warner.
Shaw plays Winnie in Beckett's minimalist comedy about love, marriage, and our search for meaning in an unfathomable universe. And she has to perform the entire play buried up to her neck in earth!
Hospital Architecture
Nobody wants to be in them, but can hospitals become more friendly and imaginative places? Do we need to rethink their very function and design?
Philip Dodd talks to Sunand Prasad, president elect of the Royal Institute of British Architects - who has recently worked on the Moorfields Eye Hospital - and to Henry Marsh, one of the UK's leading neurosurgeons.
A Child's Life
Philip Dodd talks to documentary director Jane Treays, whose new series explores the lives of children on the edge of society, from child dwarfs to the shocking world of child care.
Plastic People
And an encounter with the Plastic People, the underground rock band whose imprisonment led to the reforms in Czechoslovakia and the human rights proclamations of Charter 77.
