Bernard Rose, Public Inquiries, Tuberculosis, Mughal India
Presented by Philip Dodd. With Bernard Rose's film Boxing Day, a discussion about public inquiries, the history of tuberculosis, and a British Library exhibition on Mughal India.
Philip Dodd meets director Bernard Rose whose new film Boxing Day is a modern reworking of Leo Tolstoy's mysterious tale Master and Man.
In a year when inquiries and public outrage have been especially resonant Night Waves considers public inquiries. What do we mean by the public and does it have a right to justice?
The historian Helen Bynum talks about the history of tuberculosis, how there's a shift happening in the way historians are mapping disease and discusses how the illness, which evolved with man, has been romanticised in culture.
Nandini Das, historian and a Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, spots an unexpectedly seasonal image in the British Library's new exhibition about Mughal India.
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- Wed 19 Dec 2012 22:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3