Philip Oakes (in the chair), talks with Edward Lucie Smith , Michael Schmidt , Claire Tomalin. This week's subjects: Carnival: A People's Uprising at Romans 1579-1580 by Emmanuel Le Rey Ladurie; the Andrew Wyeth retrospective at the Royal Academy; Nikita Mikhalkov 's film A Slave of Love; Peter Gill 's production of Julius Caesar at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith; and the BBC1 production of Somerset Maugham's play Sheppey. Producer PHILIP FRENCH.