Programme Details

Nigel Andrews joins Paul Allen on Night Waves to review The Assassination of Richard Nixon - a new film starring Sean Penn about a lonely American salesman who in 1974 tried to kill the President - by flying a hijacked plane into the White House...

In 1995, the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg launched the Dogme manifesto, advocating a back-to-basics approach to film-making. Ten years on, with a new festival celebrating the movement, Paul meets Vinterberg - director of the acclaimed first Dogme film, Festen, to find out how he and von Trier are taking the movement forward via the internet...

Plus the extraordinary story of William Hone, a forgotten hero of the British press who in 1817 took on the censorious force of the British Government - and won. The historian Ben Wilson explains how this victory helped create the modern relationship between government and media...

And Susannah Clapp joins Paul to review Stoning Mary, the Royal Court debut of up and coming playwright Debbie Tucker Green.

All on Night Waves with Paul Allen tomorrow night/ tonight at nine thirty, here on Radio 3.


Presenter: Paul Allen
Producer: Phil Tinline




Additional Information
The Assassination of Richard Nixon opens nationwide on 8 April, certificate 15.
The Ten Years of Danish Dogme festival continues at the Curzon Soho cinema in central London until 1May, and includes masterclasses, previews and Q&As. The tenth Danish Dogme film, In Your Hands, is released on 29 April.
www.curzoncinemas.com
The Laughter of Triumph: William Hone and the Fight for the Free Press by Ben Wilson is published by Faber on 21 April.
Stoning Mary by debbie tucker green runs at the Royal Court Theatre in London until 23 April, and then at the Drum Theatre in Plymouth from 28 April to 14 May.
www.royalcourttheatre.com
www.theatreroyal.com