Norman Mailer , never a writer to shrink from a challenge, takes on the greatest story ever told in his new novel, The Gospel According to the Son - a first-person account of the life of Jesus Christ. And it is no surprise that Mailer's Son is considerably tougher than his gospel model. Richard Coles talks to
Norman Mailer about rewriting the Scriptures and explores the way other writers have tackled the story of Christ in fiction and biography.
Plus a profile of Atom Egoyan as The Sweet Hereafter, acclaimed at the Cannes Rim Festival, opens in Britain. And, in his regular column for Night Waves, Bill Buford of the New Yorker reflects on cultural news and gossip from across the Atlantic.
Producer Abigail Appleton