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Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Over 350 editions available in the archive.

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Night Waves: Philip Dodd

Philip Dodd

07/07/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Philip Dodd

Philip Dodd talks to the novelist Howard Jacobson and reviews Mark Rylance's latest show.

Philip Dodd interviews the novelist Howard Jacobson, reviews Mark Rylance's latest show and, as the Government calls for shorter prison sentences, discusses rehabilitation.

Philip Dodd talks to one of our leading novelists, Howard Jacobson about friendship and loss - the central themes of his new book, The Finkler Question. Susannah Clapp reports on the first night of La Bete which stars Mark Rylance, David Hyde Pierce and Joanna Lumley and the psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Dr Cleo van Velsen, the theologian Philip Blond and the prisoner turned author, Mark Johnson, examine the idea of rehabilitation - a discussion prompted by the Justice Secretary, Kenneth Clarke's recent remarks about the need for shorter prison sentences.

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