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Something of the Night

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Libby Purves presents a live, nocturnal conversation programme.

Libby Purves presents a live, nocturnal conversation programme, with a very particular connection to the night and nightlife in all its forms.

Something of the Night: Lyse Doucet, Jonathan Bailey, Gary Fildes

19/03/2018

Lyse Doucet, Jonathan Bailey, Gary Fildes

BBC Radio 4 - Something of the Night, Lyse Doucet, Jonathan Bailey, Gary Fildes

BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet joins Libby Purves for live late night conversation.

Libby Purves is joined by BBC international correspondent Lyse Doucet, actor Jonathan Bailey and astronomer Gary Fildes for live, late night conversation.

BBC international correspondent Lyse Doucet; actor Jonathan Bailey and astronomer Gary Fildes join Libby Purves for live, late night conversation.

Lyse Doucet is the award-winning chief international correspondent and senior presenter for BBC World News television and BBC World Service Radio. She is regularly deployed to anchor special news coverage from the field, including Syria, Pakistan and Egypt. She played a key role in the BBC's coverage of the Arab Spring across the Middle East and North Africa and has covered all the major stories in the region for the past 20 years. She is a regular visitor to Afghanistan and Pakistan from where she has been reporting since 1988.

Jonathan Bailey is an actor who stars as John in the York Realist, a play by Peter Gill about the love affair between John, a theatre director, and George, a Yorkshire farm labourer, and the clash between London and regional culture. A child actor who got his first break in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Christmas Carol, Jonathan has appeared in Broadchurch and W1A and his stage credits include appearing in King Lear alongside Sir Ian McKellen. The York Realist is at the Donmar Warehouse until March 24th and then at the Crucible Theatre Sheffield until April 7th.

Gary Fildes is the founder and lead astronomer at Kielder public observatory, a popular visitor attraction in Northumberland. Fired by a love of the night sky from childhood, Gary left school at 17 and went straight into manual labour, working as a bricklayer for over 25 years before turning back to his first love - astronomy. In 2012 he received an honorary Master's degree from Durham University in recognition of his services to astronomy. He founded the Kielder Observatory in 2008.

Producer: Paula McGinley.

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