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Start the Week: Paul Auster and the American Dream

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06/03/2017

Paul Auster and the American Dream

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Paul Auster and the American Dream

Andrew Marr with Paul Auster, Catherine Daunt and Simon McBurney.

Andrew Marr discusses the American Dream with the writer Paul Auster, Catherine Daunt and Simon McBurney.

Andrew Marr talks to Paul Auster about his latest work, 4 3 2 1, which weaves together four versions of his hero's life alongside the monumental events of mid-twentieth century America. 

The turbulence of the last six decades in US history, from JFK's assassination to Vietnam, to the AIDS crisis, racism and gender politics, is also presented through artists' prints in a new exhibition at the British Museum, co-curated by Catherine Daunt. 

In the 1960s and 70s, Robert Evans became one of the most powerful figures in Hollywood only to fall spectacularly from grace a decade later. In The Kid Stays in the Picture, the theatre director Simon McBurney brings his rise and fall to the stage. 

Producer: Katy Hickman

IMAGE: Jasper Johns (b. 1930), Flags I. Colour screenprint, 1973. Gift of Johanna and Leslie Garfield, on loan from the American Friends of the British Museum.
(c) Jasper Johns/VAGA, New York/DACS, London 2016. (c) Tom Powel Imaging.

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