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Night Waves - Masters of Sex

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2599 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2013

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Catholic theologian Hans Küng in his new work asks 'Can We Save The Catholic Church?'. He discusses this and more with Anne McElvoy. Anna Raeburn and Adam Mars-Jones review the first episode of Masters of Sex and discuss the work of Masters and Johnson. In a theatre critique, Susannah Clapp comes straight from the Donmar Warehouse to the studio for a first night review of Arnold Wesker's 'Roots'. And the author Wendy Lower has written a new book 'Hitler's Furies - German women in the Nazi Killing Fields' and Anne asks her what she found there.

Transcript

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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.

0:40.9

Alone tonight on nightwaves, Hans Kung, the Catholic Church's turbulent theologian,

0:45.9

talks to me about contraception, the right to die and reforming Rome.

0:50.2

Arnold Wesker's Roots gets a revival at the Donmar Warehouse.

0:53.7

We'll have a first night review,

0:55.2

and a new book reveals the long hidden story of the Third Reich's female killers.

1:00.2

But first, the sex on TV.

1:02.6

Channel 4 is delivering a corneucopia of concupiscence

1:06.0

with a series of programmes on real sex.

1:09.1

Last night, it treated us to Sexbox, which it claimed would allow us to delve frankly into the mysterious business without descending into outright porn.

1:18.7

And tonight the channel brings us Masters of Sex, the first episode of a 12-part drama documentary about Masters and Johnson, the sexual researchers who explored the bedroom

1:28.7

lives of Americans from the 1950s to the 1990s, and here they are, meeting for the first

1:34.4

time.

1:35.0

I am very capable, organized, and I'm the hardest worker I know.

1:39.4

You don't know me.

1:40.5

Well, I assume that comes with a job.

1:44.9

Any medical

1:45.9

education? I was an undergrad at Drury College.

1:50.1

Studying? Music.

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