Tom Wolfe 's best-selling novel Bonfire of the Vanities has been hailed as the most pertinent moral statement about contemporary America in decades. In the week before New York's controversial mayoral election, Howard Jacobson discusses Wolfe's vision with New York lawyer Ed Hayes , journalist
Christopher Hitchens and critics Rhoda Koenig and Homi Bhabha. Studio director NIGEL FINNIS Producer JANICE HADLOW