20 March 2006
Monday 20 March 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Matthew Sweet visits Dodford, Gloucestershire to explore one of the last surviving cottages built as part of the Chartist movement which campaigned for social and economic reform in the 19th Century.
Playlist
Matthew Sweet is in Dodford in Worcestershire to visit one of the few remaining Chartists' Cottages. The National Trust have restored Rosedene Cottage, built as part of the Chartist movement which campaigned for social and economic reform in the mid nineteenth century.
Matthew will also be visiting the new Siobhan Davies Dance Studios in South London which opens to the public in early May. The architect Sarah Wigglesworth has converted an old school building in Southwark and describes the new dance base as 'a cake tin' with the old building acting like the container and a new building bubbling up through the middle. Matthew takes a tour of the new studios with Siobhan Davies and Sarah Wigglesworth.
In the studio with Matthew, the journalist David Aaronovitch will be reviewing a new BBC2 drama, Pinochet in Suburbia, which stars Derek Jacobi and tells the story of General Pinochet's arrest and detention in Britain, including the time he spent in a gated community on Wentworth golf course where his neighbours included Bruce Forsyth and Jimmy Tarbuck.
And Simon Ings will be talking about his new novel, The Weight of Numbers which moves from the London Blitz to the civil war in Mozambique to present day England .
Additional information:
The Weight of Numbers by Simon Ings is published by Atlantic Books.
The Siobhan Davies Studio in Southwark, South London opens to the public on 2 May.
Pinochet in Suburbia is on BBC2 on Sunday 26 March at 9 o'clock.
The Chartist's Cottage in Dodford, Worchestershire is now open to the public. Viewing is by appointment only by contacting the National Trust.
