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Night Waves: China Mieville, Kent State Shootings, Florence Nightingale, Four Lions

China Mieville, Kent State Shootings, Florence Nightingale, Four Lions

04/05/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, China Mieville, Kent State Shootings, Florence Nightingale, Four Lions

Matthew Sweet discusses the lasting impact of Florence Nightingale.

Presented by Matthew Sweet. With China Mieville on his new book, the Kent State Shootings in Ohio in 1970, the lasting impact of Florence Nightingale and Chris Morris' new film.

On Night Waves this evening Matthew Sweet talks to the Arthur C Clarke award-winning writer China Miéville about his new book, Kraken, and the place such mythical sea monsters have played in fiction. 

Forty years on from his student protest days, Michael Goldfarb reflects on events in 1970 Ohio, when four students at Kent State University were shot by the state National Guard. 

Matthew visits the Florence Nightingale Museum in anticipation of its re-opening, and discusses, with guests including Nightingale's biographer, her lasting impact.

And there's a review of the new comedy by director Chris Morris. Does 'Four Lions', his film about a Sheffield-based gang of bungling jihadists, relieve the menace of the threat of terrorism by giving it a hint of Ealing comedy?

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