Richard Coles discusses crime and suicide with Martin Amis , whose new novel, Night Train, draws on the American cop genre. Bill Buford of the New Yorker joins in the conversation with his regular report on cultural news and gossip from across the Atlantic. And the Comédie-Française, the French national theatre, visits our own
National for the first time with an acclaimed production of Les Fausses Confidences by Marivaux. Night
Waves reports from the opening and considers cross-Channel differences in the notion of national theatre.
Producer Julian May