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Night Waves: Amy Bloom/Shutter Island/Simon Russell Beale/Dai Williams

Amy Bloom/Shutter Island/Simon Russell Beale/Dai Williams

08/03/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Amy Bloom/Shutter Island/Simon Russell Beale/Dai Williams

Matthew Sweet interviews the American novelist and former psychotherapist Amy Bloom.

Presented by Matthew Sweet. With novelist Amy Bloom, Martin Scorsese's film Shutter Island, actors Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw, plus Dai Williams of the Wales Arts Council.

Matthew Sweet interviews the American novelist and former psychotherapist Amy Bloom about her new collection of Short Stories, Where the God of Love Hangs Out. Bloom started out as a psychotherapist, and in addition to her fiction has also written about transvestism, and also wrote the hit American TV series State of Mind. 

The new Martin Scorsese film, Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is reviewed by Ian Christie. It tells the story of two U.S. marshals who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the cost of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island's fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane.

Matthew is also joined by the actors Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw, who are starring in a revival of the Victorian comedy London Assurance. They discuss their roles as Sir Harcourt Courtly and Lady Gay Spanker, in a play by Dion Boucicault which bridges the gap between restoration comedy and Oscar Wilde.

And the Chair of the Arts Council of Wales, Dai Williams, talks to Matthew Sweet about the opening this week of the first production for the National Theatre of Wales - and what the future is for English language theatre in Wales.

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