Humphrey Carpenter 's guest today is Atom Egoyan , the Canadian film director of Exotica and The Sweet
Hereafter, who is making his British debut for English National Opera with the world premiere of Gavin Bryars 's Doctor Ox's Experiment - based on Jules Verne 's novella about the manipulation of time. Mozart's String Quartet in F, K168, leads up to 6.00, and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances lead up to 7.00 and new releases.