Night Waves - Landmark: Oh What a Lovely War
Fifty years since Oh What a Lovely War was first performed, Night Waves pays tribute to Joan Littlewood's revolutionary anti-war musical. In a programme recorded before an audience at the Theatre Roya...
17 Okt 201343min
Night Waves - Man Booker Prize
Philip Dodd discusses the announcement of the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize with Sarah Churchwell. Susannah Clapp is in the studio discussing Rufus Norris, the director revealed today as the ...
16 Okt 201345min
Night Waves - Captain Phillips, David Thomson, The Events
Tom Hanks stars as Captain Phillips in the new film from Paul Greengrass; writer Writer Kevin Jackson and Anja Shortland join Matthew Sweet to discuss the film and its portrayal of Somali Piracy. Film...
15 Okt 201344min
Night Waves - ZSL London Zoo Ep.3
In the last of Matthew Sweet's visits to ZSL London Zoo we consider our relations with our closest animal relatives - apes. Daniel Simmonds, Keeper at ZSL London Zoo's Gorilla Kingdom, discusses the p...
11 Okt 201343min
Night Waves - Verdi 200, Dayanita Singh, 2000 years of social media
Social media, as old as Cicero and as revolutionary as Christianity? Tom Standage and William Dutton join Philip Dodd to explore our networked world and to question whether social media alters histori...
10 Okt 201344min
Night Waves - Masters of Sex
Catholic theologian Hans Küng in his new work asks 'Can We Save The Catholic Church?'. He discusses this and more with Anne McElvoy. Anna Raeburn and Adam Mars-Jones review the first episode of Master...
9 Okt 201345min
Night Waves - Miliband, Slavoj Zizek, Ghosts, Melissa Benn
Jonathan Derbyshire, the Managing Editor of Prospect magazine, and Observer columnist Nick Cohen discuss the genealogy of left wing politics in Britain. The thinker and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek take...
4 Okt 201345min
Night Waves - Landmark: The Old Men at the Zoo
In Night Waves’ second outing to London Zoo, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Angus Wilson's 1961 novel 'The Old Men at the Zoo'. Matthew is joined by Wilson's friend and biographer Margaret Drabble, ...
3 Okt 201344min
