Fighting Art, Othello at the RSC, Hans Magnus Enzensberger
With Anne McElvoy. Includes a review of the new RSC production of Othello, poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger and a discussion about a new Tate Britain history painting exhibition.
Hugh Quarshie and Lucien Msamati play Othello and Iago in the new RSC production. Lindsay Johns has a first night review. Poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger reflects on his writing and German history as he publishes a selected edition of his poems. Conflict, martyrdom and catastrophe are explored in a new exhibition at Tate Britain looking at history painting from the eighteenth century to present day. One of the 2015 New Generation Thinkers Danielle Thom and historian and columnist Tim Stanley join Anne McElvoy to discuss the show.
Fighting History is on at Tate Britain from 9 June - 13 September 2015
Othello runs at the RSC in Stratford from 4 June - 28 August 2015 and will be broadcast live to cinemas on 26 August 2015.
You can hear the director Iqbal Khan on the episode of Private Passions broadcast on May 17th. And Hugh Quarshie presents a Sunday Documentary Looking for the Moor which is being broadcast on July 12th.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger New Selected Poems is published now by Bloodaxe Books. Our reader was Stephen Critchlow.
Image: Hugh Quarshie (Othello) and Lucian Msamati (Iago)
Photo credit: Keith Pattison.
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| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Interviewed Guest | Lindsay Johns |
| Interviewed Guest | Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
| Interviewed Guest | Danielle Thom |
| Interviewed Guest | Tim Stanley |
| Presenter | Anne McElvoy |
| Producer | Ella-mai Robey |
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- Thu 11 Jun 2015 22:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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