Night Waves - Peter O'Toole
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2013
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
To pay tribute to the actor Peter O’Toole, Matthew Sweet is joined by director Roger Michell, film producer Kevin Loader, actresss Annabel Leventon and theatre critic Michael Billington. Behavioural geneticist Robert Plomin presents his theory on the importance of genetic inheritance for determining academic achievement. New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding leads a tour of Japanese Christmas. New Generation Thinker Eleanor Barraclough and John Lennard, literature and fantasy scholar, explore dragons in myth and literature, from Beowulf to Smaug.
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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 is 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. |
| 0:40.4 | Tonight, good news and bad news for anyone planning to sit an exam. |
| 0:44.5 | The results may have been decided generations ago. |
| 0:47.4 | The geneticist Robert Plowman is here to give you your predicted grades. |
| 0:51.3 | We'll also follow the way of the dragon dragon from Anglo-Saxon literature to Hollywood |
| 0:55.8 | CGI, and we'll open our Advent calendar on the Japanese Christmas. First, though, we pay tribute |
| 1:01.8 | to the man who made the most dramatic drinks order in cinema history. We want two large glasses of lemonade. |
| 1:11.6 | This is a powerful British officers. |
| 1:14.6 | That's all right. We are not particular. |
| 1:16.6 | Lawrence! |
| 1:17.6 | Are you off your head? |
| 1:19.6 | No. Oddly enough, I'm not. |
| 1:22.6 | You were a good mother. |
| 1:30.3 | I'd rather left you holding the babies, didn't I? |
| 1:34.3 | You did do that. |
| 1:36.0 | Three children under six, to be exact. |
| 1:38.8 | I can see it must have been inconvenient. |
| 1:43.7 | But you put your own pleasure first. |
| 1:48.7 | I did love you for a time. |
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