Oskar Kokoschka saw himself as a visionary and witness to the truth of experience: the Archduke Ferdinand saw him as a fraud and declared that he would like to break every bone in his body. Paul Allen explores a life story that is as passionate as the work, from Kokschka's youth, when he wrote drama that was set to music by leading composers including Hindemith, to a turbulent affair with Alma Mahler , and he discusses Kokoschka's achievement with Susanne Keegan , whose new biography sees the artist as one of the century's most original and influential painters. Plus first-night news from Julius Caesar at the Globe theatre in London.
Producer Zahid Warley