Patrick Keiller
Wednesday 21 November 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Playlist
Patrick Keiller
Philip Dodd talks to the film maker Patrick Keiller who has been described as "the most distinctive voice to emerge in British cinema since Peter Greenaway".
They discuss Keiller's latest project, an interactive installation that describes the transformation of urban space at the turn of the 20th Century.
Speed date with a thinker
Poet and maestro of The Verb Ian McMillan will be reporting on the 'speed-dating with a thinker' sessions from the Free Thinking festival.
Members of the audience in Liverpool went through a series of face to face encounters with experts, academics, writers and cultural movers and shakers trying to make a match with the perfect idea.
Literacy concerns
Philip Dodd and guests explore current concerns about literacy, and why literacy rates are often taken as a marker of a society's ills.
The Darjeeling Limited
Nicholas Barber reviews The Darjeeling Limited, a new film by Wes Anderson, director of The Royal Tanenbaums and Rushmore.
It chronicles three brothers experiences on a train journey across India.
