Night Waves - Napoleon, Turner Prize, Georgia
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2012
⏱️ 46 minutes
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As Radio 3 marks the bicentenary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s historic retreat from Russia, Anne McElvoy examines the ambivalent relationship between France and the notorious leader, with political commentator Agnes Poirier, Professor Peter Hicks from the Napoleon foundation and Professor Michael Broers. Critic Adrian Searle discusses the winner of this year’s Turner Prize, Elizabeth Price. And there's a look at the first comprehensive history of Georgia for decades, using recently accessible archives from author Donald Rayfield.
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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 nightwaves, I'll be talking about fame, glory and modern France with Napoleon the 7th. |
| 0:46.2 | It's a very strange experience the first time when I was a child, you know, |
| 0:52.3 | and I reserved a place on the restaurant and say, if you're in a poland, I'm the pop child, you know, and I reserved a place on the restaurant and say, |
| 0:55.5 | if you are Napoleon, I'm the Pops, you know. |
| 0:59.6 | Charles Napoleon there and more from the great man's descendant later on. |
| 1:04.1 | Conquest is the theme of another of our subjects. |
| 1:06.7 | There's a new book on Georgia traces the roots of a land caught between the fractious empires |
| 1:10.5 | of East and West. |
| 1:11.8 | But first, this year's Turner Prize winner has just been announced this evening |
| 1:15.4 | and it's Elizabeth Price for her video and film work, The Woolworth's Choir of 1979. |
| 1:21.7 | The prize that's launched a thousand rows about contemporary art |
| 1:24.8 | featured work from artists' varied as Spartacus Chetwyndt, |
| 1:28.4 | who's adapted the medieval morality play for modern performance. |
| 1:31.6 | Paul Noble mixed scatological humour with an Escher-like devotion to fine drawing |
| 1:36.5 | in his virtual world, Nobson Newtown. |
| 1:39.4 | But this year has also seen film make a bid for Turner Glory |
| 1:43.0 | with Luke Fowler's collage of archival |
| 1:45.4 | footage evoking the career of the psychiatrist Ard. Lang. But Elizabeth Price's video |
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