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Last broadcast on Wed, 7 Jan 2009, 21:15 on BBC Radio 3.
Synopsis
Philip Dodd discusses the enduring fascination with the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, the subject of a new biography and a film. He looks at Simon Reid-Henry's Fidel and Che, which explores the friendship between the rebel Fidel Castro and the itinerant doctor Che Guevara, as well as Soderbergh's films Che: Part One and Part Two, which tell his life story and feature Benicio del Toro in the title role.
David Hare
Philip Dodd talks to that titan of British political drama David Hare.
From the 1970’s onwards he produced a series of state of the nation plays for the BBC in what came to be seen as a “golden age” of television drama.
Philip Dodd asks him why he thinks the BBC’s abandonment of the single TV play is a “spineless betrayal of the playwright, the art and the public”.
Che Guevara
Philip talks to William Rowlandson and award-winning Cuba scholar, Simon Reid-Henry about how the image and story of Che Guevara is used and recycled.
Che: Part 1 is released in cinemas nationwide on 20 February.
Fidel and Che: A Revolutionary Friendship by Simon Reid-Henry is published by Sceptre
David Hare
Philip Dodd talks to that titan of British political drama David Hare and asks him why he thinks the BBC’s abandonment of the single TV play is a “spineless betrayal of the playwright, the art and the public”
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Wed 7 Jan 200921:15
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