Jacques Herzog
Monday 19 February 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Matthew Sweet talks to Swiss architect Jacques Herzog, whose buildings include London's Tate Modern and the National Stadium in Beijing. He is soon to collect the RIBA's gold medal for his services to architecture.
Playlist
Renoir's Landscapes
A new Renoir exhibition, about to open at the National Gallery, is the first in the UK for twenty years.
It focuses not on the busy Parisian scenes of his best-known work, but his early landscapes.
Art critic Andrew Graham Dixon and novelist Michele Roberts join Matthew to venture among duck ponds and harvesters.
Renoir Landscapes 1865-1883 opens at the National Gallery on Wednesday (21 March) and runs until 20 May. www.nationalgallery.org.uk
Click on this link to visit the Night Waves gallery of images from the Renoir Landscapes exhibition
Herzog and de Meuron
Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are best known for Tate Modern, but more recently they've designed the new National Stadium in Beijing.
On the eve of receiving the Royal Institute of British Architecture's Gold Medal, Jacques Herzog tells Matthew about working in a country with as strong an architectural tradition as China.
The Future of the Essay
As Radio 3 launches its new schedule, including a late-night programme called The Essay, Marina Warner joins Matthew to discuss the future of this long-form genre in our bitesized, short-attention-span culture.
The Essay begins 19 March on Radio 3 at 11pm and runs from Monday to Thursday each week.
Once Upon A Time In Iran
BAFTA-winning director Kevin Sim's documentary follows a group of Iranians on their pilgrimage to Karbala in Iraq, the site of a central event for Shia Muslims - the martyrdom of Hussain.
Professor Haleh Afshar joins Matthew to discuss the film's portrait of the remembrance of martyrdom amid geopolitical tensions.
Once Upon a Time in Iran will be shown on Channel 4 on 22 February at 9pm.
Maurice Broomfield
Matthew talks to Maurice Broomfield, father of documentary film-maker Nick, about the novel photographs he took of British factories in the post-war 1950s which depicted them as glamorous and heroic, and will be on display shortly at the Science Museum in London.
They discuss whether depictions of factories can ever be purely artistic.
Maurice Broomfield's 'New Look' at Industry: Photographs from Post-War Britain opens at the Science Museum in London on 21 February and runs until 6 May. For further information, visit www.sciencemuseum.org.uk.
