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Free Thinking

Landmark - Man with a Movie Camera

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Michael Nyman, Ian Christie, Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Alexei Popogrebsky and Matthew Sweet on the impact of 'the greatest documentary of all time', Dziga Vertov's 1929 masterpiece. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Nyman
Interviewed Guest:
Ian Christie
Interviewed Guest:
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Interviewed Guest:
Salman Rushdie
Producer:
Zahid Warley

Front Row

Michael Nyman at 70

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Kirsty Lang presents a special programme about Michael Nyman, composer of minimalist music and film scores, pianist, librettist and musicologist. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Nyman
Interviewed Guest:
Fiona Maddocks
Interviewed Guest:
Jonathan Lennie
Interviewed Guest:
Andy Findon
Interviewed Guest:
David McAlmont

Saturday Live

Mark Steel

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Aasmah Mir and the Reverend Richard Coles are joined by stand-up comedian Mark Steel. MC Beaton shares her inheritance tracks, and Anna Bailey meets Michael Nyman. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Aasmah Mir
Presenter:
Richard Coles
Interviewer:
Anna Bailey
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Steel
Interviewed Guest:
Paula Zuccotti
Interviewed Guest:
Anna Bailey
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Nyman
Interviewed Guest:
Graham Short
Interviewed Guest:
Debbie Wiseman
Interviewed Guest:
MC Beaton

Storyville

Man on Wire

Duration: 1 hour, 34 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Documentary telling how Frenchman Philippe Petit fulfilled his dream of walking on a wire strung between the rooftops of New York's Twin Towers in 1974. Show more

Contributors

Director:
James Marsh
Producer:
Simon Chinn
Executive Producer:
Nick Fraser
Executive Producer:
Jonathan Hewes
Executive Producer:
Andrea Meditch
Director of photography:
Igor Martinovic
Film Editor:
Jinx Godfrey
Composer:
Michael Nyman

Front Row

Transcendence Review; James Graham and Josie Rourke on Privacy; Michael Nyman at 70

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Michael Nyman reveals for the first time what inspired his 19 new symphonies; James Graham and Josie Rourke on the alarming research behind new play Privacy; Transcendence review. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Nyman
Interviewed Guest:
Josie Rourke
Interviewed Guest:
James Graham
Producer:
Ellie Bury