Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. 
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Philip Dodd talks to Orange Prize-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her new collection of short stories and how love, fear and sorrow permeate our lives wherever we are.
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is published by 4th Estate. -
Counter Insurgency
US army veteran Michael Burgoyne talks about how he and his fellow veteran Arlbert Marckwardt turned the lessons they learned on the battlefields of Iraq into a counter-insurgency text book – using a Boer war classic as their inspiration.
The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa by Michael Burgoyne and Arlbert Marckwardt is published by University of Chicago Press. -
50 Dead Men Walking
Did one IRA informant save the lives of fifty men? Glenn Patterson reviews the film 50 Dead Men Walking and its depiction of the life of Martin McGartland, who acted as an undercover IRA informant during the late 1980s and early 90s.
50 Dead Men Walking is certificate 15 and is released on the 10 April. -
Bauhaus at 90
Its ninety years since architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus, or ‘house of building’ - combining the teaching of design with technically expert craftsmanship. Frank Whitford and Rab Bennetts join Philip to discuss how long-lasting has its legacy been?
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BBC Radio 3Mon 6 Apr 2009 21:15 BBC Radio 3
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Arts and Ideas
The best of BBC Radio 3's flagship arts and ideas programme Night Waves - featuring in-depth...
