10 January 2007
Wednesday 10 January 2007 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Forest Whitaker playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.
Playlist
Doris Lessing
The novelist Doris Lessing joins Philip Dodd to talk about her new novel, 'The Cleft'.
Inspired by scientific research suggesting that the primal human stock was female and that men developed later, Lessing explores what this original all-female society might have been like.
Male Sexuality
Throughout this week Night Waves looks ahead at some of the potential major issues of the near future. Tonight Philip Dodd and guests Bea Campbell, Philip Hodson and Oliver Curry discuss the subject of male sexuality.
What do men want from sexual relationships and what sustains the consumer demand behind the sex industry in the twenty first century?
The Last King of Scotland
The director Kevin MacDonald will be talking about his new film 'The Last King of Scotland', which takes its title from the name the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin - played by Forest Whitaker - gave himself.
'The Last King of Scotland' marks a departure for MacDonald who is best known as a documentary film maker for films including Touching the Void and the Oscar winning One Day in September.
