Night Waves - Britten 100, Theatre Uncut, John F Kennedy
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2013
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
With the return of the Young Vic's Theatre Uncut season, Anne McElvoy is joined by Neil LaBute, Hannah Price and Tiffany Jenkins to discuss the role and nature of political theatre. Writer Scott Turow reflects on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, 50 years on. As part of Radio 3's Britten 100 celebrations, Alexandra Harris and Francis Spalding discuss the life and work of his librettist Myfanwy Piper.
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| 0:34.1 | For more information and our terms of use, go to BBC.co.uk slash radio three. |
| 0:40.4 | Tonight on nightwaves, 50 years after the killing of JFK, |
| 0:44.0 | how did that violent breach in America's politics influence a contemporary political thriller writer |
| 0:49.1 | who will be hearing from Scott Chouro on the impact of one president's assassination. |
| 0:54.6 | And as Radio 3's weekend from all remarks Benjamin Britain's centenary, |
| 0:58.7 | we revisit his favourite librettist, Mifanui Piper, by way of Jean Pitney. |
| 1:06.1 | Think me, double-made, dead laburnum, shedding an angle o jackson shade shall we ever my staunch |
| 1:18.1 | m'an we bicycle down to north parade hand of the handlebars marks in the saddlebag, |
| 1:29.1 | lie in my touch on your shoulder blade. |
| 1:34.3 | John Betchman's tribute to his staunch Mofanui Piper, |
| 1:37.8 | Mifanwi at Oxford, and more on her to come. |
| 1:41.0 | But first, curtain up on political dissent. |
| 1:48.0 | Who do you protect? Who do you serve? Who do you protect? Two years on from the Occupy protests, what did the 21st century revolutionaries |
| 1:56.2 | bring to the theatre? For the second year, London's young Vic is running theatre uncut, evenings of short, |
| 2:02.7 | specially commissioned plays, protesting against austerity-inspired spending cuts and much else about |
| 2:08.0 | the capitalist system besides. Theatre uncut wants to take the work to a global stage, with a range |
| 2:13.8 | of new and established writers who've contributed works. Neil Lebutte, Mark Thomas, Mark Ravenhill, David Gregg and Claire Brennan to name but a few, |
| 2:23.7 | allowing their work to be downloaded and performed by anyone who fancies taking on the challenge, |
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