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Night Waves: Rose Tremain/Vanity/Ibsen's Ghosts/The Day the Immigrants Left

Rose Tremain/Vanity/Ibsen's Ghosts/The Day the Immigrants Left

23/02/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Rose Tremain/Vanity/Ibsen's Ghosts/The Day the Immigrants Left

Matthew Sweet has a first night review of Ibsen's play Ghosts, adapted by Frank McGuinness

Presented by Matthew Sweet. With Rose Tremain on her new novel, a debate on vanity in literature, the new version of Ibsen's play Ghosts and a BBC ONE documentary on immigration.

Matthew Sweet will be talking to the novelist Rose Tremain about her new novel Trespass, in which an isolated French country pile plays host to a tug of war over land, property and money between siblings, who watch their family home crumble to reveal an abusive regime. 

And, marking London Fashion Week, John Mullan and Peter York join Matthew to look at the idea of vanity, tracing what writers and thinkers down the centuries from Thackeray and Bunyan to Tom Wolfe have had to say on the subject.

Plus a first night review of the new production of Ibsen's Ghosts adapted by the Irish playwright Frank McGuinness. One English critic on its opening in 1891 described it as 'an open drain, a dirty deed done in public'. Susannah Clapp will be giving a 21st century verdict on the play which stars Lesley Sharp and Iain Glen who is making his directorial debut.

And Evan Davis will be discussing his new BBC1 documentary, 'The Day the Immigrants Left', which looks at the impact of immigration on the Cambridgeshire town of Wisbech and explores what happens when some of the employees are temporarily removed from their jobs and the work is given to the local unemployed.

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