Alistair McGowan as Jimmy Savile, Amitav Ghosh, Richard Dadd
Presented by Kirsty Lang. Alistair McGowan discusses playing Jimmy Savile, Amitav Ghosh on his novel Flood of Fire, Richard Dadd's exhibition reviewed and trouble at Bayreuth.
Alistair McGowan plays the role of Jimmy Savile in a controversial new play by Jonathan Maitland which opened last night. McGowan and Maitland discuss their mixed feelings about the project and how and why they chose to portray the serial paedophile.
The novelist Amitav Ghosh talks about the final part of his Ibis Trilogy, Flood of Fire, which follows the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke, set during the turbulent times of the Opium Wars.
A new exhibition by the Victorian artist Richard Dadd shows paintings from his early career, when he was seen as one of the most talented and promising artists of his generation, to paintings completed after he suffered a breakdown and was admitted to Bethlem psychiatric Hospital. Historian Kathryn Hughes reviews.
As Wagner's German opera house Bayreuth prepares for the 150th anniversary performance of Tristan and Isolde, music critic and writer Norman Lebrecht considers the almighty row that is taking place between Wagner's two great-grand-daughters who run the festival.
Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
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Alistair McGowan on playing the role of Jimmy Savile
Duration: 03:42
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Alistair McGowan as Jimmy Savile
Duration: 10:21
Richard Dadd
Duration: 04:57
Amitav Ghosh
Duration: 08:11
Wagner family in Bayreuth
Duration: 04:22
An Audience with Jimmy Savile
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is at the Park Theatre in London until 11 July 2015.
Images (main and left): Β© Helen MaybanksΒ
The Art of Bedlam: Richard Dadd
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is at the Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey from Tuesday 16 June.
Image: Richard Dadd. Contradiction. Oberon and Titania (1854-8). Oil on canvas. Private Collection.
Amitav Ghosh
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Floor of Fire by is available now in hardback and ebook.
Image: Β© Emilio Madrid-KuserΒ
Wagner family in Bayreuth
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Norman Lebrecht on the feudingΒ Wagner family in Bayreuth.
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Role Contributor Presenter Kirsty Lang Interviewed Guest Alistair McGowan Interviewed Guest Jonathan Maitland Interviewed Guest Amitav Ghosh Interviewed Guest Kathryn Hughes Interviewed Guest Norman Lebrecht Producer Jerome Weatherald Broadcast
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