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Night Waves: The Kennedys

The Kennedys

31/03/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, The Kennedys

Philip Dodd discusses a controversial new TV series about John F Kennedy.

Philip Dodd discusses a controversial new TV series about John F Kennedy, starring Katie Holmes, and talks to Ken Loach's son Jim about his directorial debut Oranges and Sunshine.

American author and journalist Brenda Maddox reviews a controversial new TV series about John F Kennedy, starring Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes, which was dropped by several US networks after mounting political pressure. The Kennedys is about to be shown in the UK on the History Channel.

Jim Loach, son of renowned director Ken, has embarked on a career in film direction himself - he talks to Philip Dodd about his debut Oranges and Sunshine, which explores one of the worst social scandals of recent times: the organised deportation of children in care from the United Kingdom to Australia. 

David Cohen, author of a new book exploring Sigmund Freud's use of cocaine, discusses how Freud's period of addiction throws new light on his personality and influenced his ideas.

And: has the rise of women turned men into boys? Leading American author and academic Kay Hymowitz argues just that in a new book on the need for men to 'man up'- we debate the state of male maturity with Kay and writers Tim Lott and Leo Benedictus.

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