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Night Waves: Pina Bausch, Martin Amis, Philosophy at the Institut Francais, Snow White

11/06/2012

Pina Bausch, Martin Amis, Philosophy at the Institut Francais, Snow White

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Pina Bausch, Martin Amis, Philosophy at the Institut Francais, Snow White

Presented by Rana Mitter. With a discussion on Pina Bausch's dance company.

Presented by Rana Mitter. With a discussion on Pina Bausch's dance company, Martin Amis's new novel, philosophy at the Institut Francais in London, and adapations of Snow White.

She's been called the 'mother of modern dance' and her World Cities season at the Barbican and Sadler's Wells has been greeted with rave reviews and standing ovations. Tonight on Night Waves we get behind the hype and discuss Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch -the themes, the iconic moments, and the legacy - with the actress Fiona Shaw, the choreographer Michael Keegan Dolan, and the dance critic Sarah Crompton. 

Martin Amis' new novel 'Lionel Asbo: State of England' has burst onto the literary scene like a hand grenade of brilliant divisiveness. Reviewers seem to either love or hate the book which describes the lottery winning lunacy of one feckless urban criminal and his grossly extended family. Martin Amis talks to Rana Mitter.

There was an all-nighter of philosophy at the Institut Francais in London at the week-end and Night Waves was there to find out what such a French happening has to teach us.


And during this apology for a summer two new blockbuster films reimagine the story of Snow White: 'Mirror Mirror' and 'Snow White and the Huntsman.' But according to Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Corin Throsby, both films are following a long literary tradition of adapting this most familiar fairy tale.

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