Night Waves - 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, A Small Circus, Jeremy Deller, Carbon Democracy

A new production of the Jacobean tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore opens at the Silk Street Theatre, the Barbican, this evening. Paul Allen hot-foots it from the theatre to the studio to join Anne McElvoy live for a first night review.

'A Small Circus', the literary breakthrough of Hans Fallada is set during the collapse of the Weimar and focuses on a group of farmers demonstrating against tax hikes. First published in 1931, it has been translated for the first time into English by Michael Hofmann who, together with Fallada's biographer, Jenny Williams, discuss the work and legacy of one of Germany's great 20th Century.

Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller reflects on his career as a retrospective of his work opens at the Hayward Gallery this week.

And why the history of the 20th century should be re-written through the medium of Texas tea: Oil. Tim Mitchell's new book Carbon Democracy argues that energy is the way to understand our democratic history.