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Night Waves - Captain Phillips, David Thomson, The Events

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2599 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2013

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Tom Hanks stars as Captain Phillips in the new film from Paul Greengrass; writer Writer Kevin Jackson and Anja Shortland join Matthew Sweet to discuss the film and its portrayal of Somali Piracy. Film historian David Thomson discusses the most memorable moments in films. As David Greig’s play The Events opens, inspired by the Norwegian massacre by Anders Breivik, the director Ramin Gray, forensic psychiatrist Cleo Van Velsen and priest Giles Fraser discuss the possibility of forgiveness in the face of atrocity.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that at some level of genius. It also helps

0:21.2

that it's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream

0:26.1

van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC sounds.

0:32.1

This is a download from the BBC. For more information and our terms of use, go to BBC.co.uk slash radio three.

0:40.7

Tonight on night waves, the problem of evil and whether it's a problem worth solving,

0:45.6

a question posed by a new play inspired by the Anders Breivik case,

0:50.0

and debated tonight by its director, a forensic psychiatrist, and the Reverend Giles Fraser.

0:55.4

Before we enter that moral minefield, you'll hear the film critic David Thompson

0:59.6

negotiating the moments that make the movies. Some of these involve murder, others involve

1:05.3

smoking and kissing and leaving home never to return. Well, you get the picture, or you will soon.

1:11.4

First, though, the movie of the moment.

1:13.6

Captain Phillips, Tom Hanks is at the helm of a giant container ship, the SS Alabama.

1:19.4

And so is another captain, a pirate one, who's launched a little skiff from a beach in Somalia,

1:25.3

and demoted Hanks' character to some other rank entirely.

1:29.5

We got a problem.

1:30.9

We push the ship too hard.

1:32.7

We're off the grid.

1:34.0

That means the computer's now offline.

1:36.2

Captain.

1:36.9

The ship's broken.

1:37.9

Captain.

1:38.8

No one gets hurt if you don't play no game.

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