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Pantomime: Professor Jeffrey Richards; Bryony Lavery; EO Wilson

Matthew Sweet and panto with Jeffrey Richards and actor/director Tony Lidington, Bryony Lavery between Treasure Island and 101 Dalmatians, biologist EO Wilson on the human miracle.

Matthew Sweet on Pantomime past to present writer Jeffrey Richards and actor/director Tony Lidington. Jeffrey Richards book is called The Golden Age of Pantomime: Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England.

Bryony Lavery talks stage writing ahead of her double-Christmas offerings of Treasure Island at the National Theatre in London and The One Hundred and One Dalmatians at Chichester's Festival Theatre.

American biologist EO Wilson puts humanity centre-stage in his new book The Meaning of Human Existence and explains why we'll never meet ET and gets ants to take a bow.

Producer: Jacqueline Smith

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45 minutes

Last on

Wed 17 Dec 2014 22:00

Chapters

  • Pantomime - past and present

    Actor/director Tony Liddinton and historian Jeffrey Richards

    Duration: 18:14

  • Bryony Lavery

    Playwirght discusses her recent adaptations for the stage

    Duration: 13:44

  • Edward O Wilson

    American biologist of the meaning of human existence

    Duration: 10:59

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest Jeffrey Richards
Interviewed Guest Tony Lidington
Interviewed Guest EO Wilson
Interviewed Guest Bryony Lavery
Producer Jacqueline Smith

Broadcast

  • Wed 17 Dec 2014 22:00

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