Night Waves - Phil Redmond
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2012
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Phil Redmond, the creator of ground-breaking series such as Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks, joins Philip Dodd to discuss his new autobiography which charts his journey of success from being a working class lad in Liverpool. Michael Goldfarb, journalist and broadcaster, and Colleen Graffy, professor of law at Pepperdine University, join Philip to consider the concept of Them and Us, and whether the social and culture wars in America are rendering its people ever more divided. And film critic Nigel Floyd joins Michael Goldfarb to review The Master, the new film by Paul Thomas Anderson which is tipped for Oscar nominations.
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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. This is a download |
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| 0:41.1 | On tonight's programme with the hurricane set to hit the east coast of the US, we look over the stormy |
| 0:47.8 | Atlantic, with the review of the new award-winning film The Master, hailed as a great American film, |
| 0:56.0 | with its portrait of a post-war US fascinated and appalled by a Scientology-like cult. And as the presidential election looms, |
| 1:03.4 | we wonder if the US has become a place of irreconcilable and thunderous social and cultural |
| 1:09.8 | division, a country of us and of them. |
| 1:13.7 | Plus, nearer home, an interview with Phil Redmond, a man who in dramas such as |
| 1:19.3 | Brookside has been producing controversial work on an industrial scale two or three times a week |
| 1:25.9 | on British television over the last 30 years or so. |
| 1:29.6 | And then every year we'd be looking to the 12 to 18 months ahead, so you're looking for big |
| 1:33.3 | dramatic themes. And one of the things that's always on the right, the writer's lists is, you know, |
| 1:39.2 | rape is always up there in the top five. More from Phil Redmond later. |
| 1:45.0 | But first, them and us. |
| 1:47.9 | This weekend's Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival |
| 1:50.7 | is taking as its subject the idea of them and us, |
| 1:54.1 | whether we're becoming ever more divided in a global world. |
| 1:58.1 | Tonight, we look at how it's figuring and disfiguring the US. |
| 2:02.8 | More Americans than ever before feel that the future is likely to be gloomier than the past, |
| 2:08.3 | and that America is under siege by economies from the East. |
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