Programme Details

This evening on Night Waves, Susan Hitch talks to the novelist and Nobel Laureate V S Naipaul. His new novel, Magic Seeds , has at its centre the character Willie Chandran, a man whose lifelong wanderings have left him a perpetual outsider. In an extended interview, V S Naipaul talks about the similarities - and contrasts - between his own rootlessness and his character's, and explains how surprise is at the bottom of all he does.

Also in the programme, a review of a television drama which imagines the events that might follow the explosion of a terrorist "dirty bomb" in central London.

We've the latest in our series of interviews with young British designers.

And as a New York gallery stages an exhibition of the photographs depicting American abuse of Iraqi prisoners, Night Waves asks whether the images are pornography or valid photojournalism.

Join Susan Hitch and her guests tonight, live at 9.30.


Presenter: Susan Hitch
Producer: Thomas Morris




Additional Information:

V S Naipaul's novel Magic Seeds is published by Picador.

Dirty War is on BBC One on Sunday at 9 pm.

Design Mart is at the Design Museum in London until Sunday, and then tours galleries and museums across the country. Link: www.designmuseum.org