Sylvia Plath, Marcel Duchamp, Asteroid Watch, Side by Side

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In Night Waves tonight Matthew Sweet discusses the legacy of Sylvia Plath, who died 50 years ago this week, with her friend Ruth Fainlight and the poet Fiona Sampson. As a new documentary about the future of film is released, the artist Tacita Dean and film maker Mike Figgis join Matthew in the studio to discuss the shift from traditional to digital technology and its implications. Plus a review of The Bride and the Bachelors, a new exhibition of the work of Marcel Duchamp, the influential French surrealist. The show includes the work Nude Descending a Staircase No 2 which caused great controversy when it was shown in New York in 1913. And the science writer Marcus Chown and futurologist Anders Sandberg discuss the potential threats caused by two asteroids passing close to the Earth. That's all on Night Waves with Matthew Sweet, here on Radio 3 at 10pm. Producer: Fiona McLean.