21 April 2006
Friday 21 April 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
The novelist Jake Arnott will be talking about his new novel 'Johnny Come Home'; he's turned his attention away from crime fiction to write about the glam rock era of the 1970s.
Playlist
Matthew Sweet will be joined in the studio by the folk artist Martin Carthy to discuss Bruce Springsteen's latest album, 'We Shall Overcome', Springsteen's interpretations of thirteen traditional folk songs connected with the legendary folk musician Pete Seeger.
Also in the studio the novelist Jake Arnott will be talking about his new novel 'Johnny Come Home'. His first novel, 'The Long Firm' was set in 1960s London and became a successful television series. Now he's turned his attention away from crime fiction to write about the glam rock era of the 1970s.
Documentary film maker Tony Palmer tells us about his new three part television series on John Osborne, the author of 'Look Back in Anger', and why the critics who see his work as being filled with destructive rage misunderstand the playwright.
And Peggy Reynolds will be reviewing the film which won the Golden Bear for Best Film at last year's Berlin Film Festival. U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, based on Bizet's Carmen, is set in a Cape Town shanty town and is performed by a theatre company formed in South Africa by the director Mark Dornford-May and the conductor Charles Hazlewood.
Additional information
'John Osborne and the Gift of Friendship' is on Five and begins on Tuesday April 25th at 7.15pm
'Johnny Come Home' by Jake Arnott is published by Sceptre
'U-Carmen' is on general release certificate 12A
'The Seeger Sessions: We Shall Overcome' by Bruce Springsteen is on the Columbia Label
