Alvar Aalto
Thursday 22 February 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Playlist
Jane Smiley
Gabriel Gbadamosi has the first British interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, Jane Smiley about her new book, 'Ten Days in the Hills'.
It's set in Hollywood and based on Boccaccio's 14th century erotic masterpiece, The Decameron.
Alvar Aalto
Night Waves explore the legacy of the influential Finnish architect Alvar Aalto - the man who gave modernism a human face, as a new exhibition of his work opens at the Barbican.
Kombat Opera
The creators of 'Jerry Springer, The Opera' are back with a new television series- Kombat Opera.
This time the target of their parodies are existing television favourites like 'The Apprentice' and The South Bank Show.