Night Waves - International Review
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2012
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Sweet chairs an "International Review" edition of the programme and is joined by two novelists, from China, Xiaolu Guo, and from Poland, A.M. Bakalar and also by the Cairo-based Middle East affairs commentator Magdi Abdelhadi and critic Konstantin Eggert. They discuss the 50th anniversary of Lawrence of Arabia; the international reaction to the Leveson report and how media practices differ around the world; and the new English translation of a 19th century Polish novel, The Heathen by Narcyza Zmichowska.
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| 0:43.5 | Hello and welcome to International Review, one of those editions of nightwaves on which |
| 0:48.1 | cultural prejudice is absolutely encouraged. |
| 0:51.2 | For the next 45 minutes, we'll spurn locally sourced opinions and splash out |
| 0:56.4 | on thoughts and views freighted expensively from across the world. We'll inspect a classic of |
| 1:02.0 | 19th century Polish literature as it crosses the English border for the first time. We'll get a |
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