Monday 09:00-09:45
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Setting the week's cultural agenda.
13 February 2006
Presenter: DAVID BADDIEL
Guests
Did the Allies commit a moral crime in their area bombing of German and Japanese cities? A C GRAYLING, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, discusses this question and attempts to answer it in his new book Among the Dead Cities , published by Bloomsbury.
ANN WIDDECOMBE is one of Parliament's better-known Christians, partly because she was one of several MPs to convert to Catholicism in 1993 during the dispute over women priests. Next week she is delivering a speech in memory of a former Catholic Archbishop, Derek Worlock, and is going to talk about faith and politics. The Archbishop Worlock Memorial Lecture is at Liverpool Town Hall on 24 February.
As consultant curator for the Tate Britain exhibition, Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination, PROFESSOR SIR CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING talks about the Romantic imagination and the great British tradition of horror. The exhibition runs from 15 February to 1 May.
Film critic and writer JOE QUEENAN'S latest book is an attack on Baby Boomers - who he argues are the most self-absorbed, avaricious and annoying generation - and he should know, he is one himself. Balsamic Dreams is published by Picador.
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