Programme Details

The British Land Artist Andy Goldsworthy has worked in some of the most hostile places on earth - from the cold of the North Pole and the Canada to the red hot heart of the Australian outback. His latest exhibition however is in much safer environment - the newly opened Albion Gallery in London. But even here, he makes sculptures out of natural objects which are dangerous, defiant, yet beautiful. Andy Goldsworthy walks you and Isabel Hilton around his latest work, Passage, which includes 18foot stone tower held together by gravity. How can he have exchanged the hazards of nature for the safety of the gallery? He reveals why.

The TS Eliot Prize is the top prize in poetry in Britain. It's been described by the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion as 'the prize most poets want to win.' The poet Sarah Maguire reveals the nominees - and the winner, just after he/she has been announced. Will it be Peter Porter, Kathleen Jamie, Tom Paulin, Ruth Padel or George Szirtes? Or Michael Symmons, Colette Bryce, Michael Longley or Kathryn Gray?

The Japanese novelist Haruki Marukami now has such a cult following that proof editions of his books are selling for 100s of pounds. His new book, Kafka on the Shore, went into five reprints even before it was officially out this week - demand is so high. And his work is so surreal that it defies description - although his book, The Elephant Vanishes, was recently turned into a highly acclaimed theatre piece by Britain's leading avant garde company, Theatre de Complicite, and played to sellout and enraptured audiences.
Kafka on the Shore is no less surreal than any - and features everything from a Hegel Spouting prostitute, to fish tumbling from storm laden skies. The critic Robert Hanks gives his verdict - and reflects on the cult following of one of the world's greatest living novelists.

That's all on Night Waves tonight with Isabel Hilton, at the later time of 9.45pm on Radio 3.


PRODUCTION DETAILS

Andy Goldsworthy - Passage - a new exhibition of his work is showing at
Albion Gallery, 11 Hester Road, London Sw11 January 11th-31st March 2005.
A book of the same name is published by Thames and Hudson

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - published by Harvill Press hardback £12.99


The TS Eliot Prize nominated poets and their books are -

Colette Bryce - The Full Indian Rope Trick - Picador
Kathryn Gray - The Never Never - Seren
Kathleen Jamie - The Tree House - Picador
Michael Longley - Snow Water - Cape
Ruth Padel - The Soho Leopard - Chatto
Tom Paulin - The Road to Inver - Faber
Peter Porter - Afterburner - Picador
Michael Symmons Roberts - Corpus - Cape
George Szirtes - Reel - Bloodaxe
John Hartley Williams - Blues - Cape