The arts after dark: reviews and features straight from the stalls.
Tonight Richard Coles reports on the opening of English National Opera's new production of The Flying
Dutchman and asks what stormy waters lie ahead for Paul Daniel as he becomes musical director.
And Bill Buford , literary and fiction editor of the New Yorker, delivers the first in a series of reports for Night Waves on cultural life across the Atlantic - from cooking dinner for
Don DeLillo to doing a deal on your own corpse.
Producer Matthew Dodd