Night Waves - Rory Kinnear
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2013
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Actor Rory Kinnear, currently playing Iago at the National Theatre, discusses the challenges of writing his first play. Samira Ahmed talks to the Australian Art exhibition curator at The RA and to Edmund Capon, former director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, whose television series The Art of Australia starts next month. Kit Davis assesses a landmark of American cinema, Michael Roemer's 1964 film Nothing But A Man. And Roger Highfield and Eliane Glaser discuss the idea of the scientist as hero and curator of wonder.
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| 0:40.8 | On tonight's programme, myths, monsters and heroes. |
| 0:44.3 | Actor Rory Kinnear's debut as a playwright, The Heard, depicts the private bravery of a family living with profound disability. |
| 0:51.8 | Plus a re-release for Malcolm X's allegedly favourite film, |
| 0:56.0 | the 1964 Nothing But a Man. |
| 0:58.8 | And... |
| 0:59.6 | He was good-looking, charismatic, and many said, arrogant. |
| 1:05.2 | He thought he was a genius, and he was probably right. |
| 1:09.2 | Professor Brian Cox on Michael Faraday. |
| 1:12.5 | In his new BBC 4 History of Science, |
| 1:14.9 | we debate our desire for scientists to be heroes. |
| 1:18.5 | But first, myth-making looms large in Australia, |
| 1:21.9 | the Royal Academy's landmark exhibition of the Art of the Nation, |
| 1:25.3 | the first of its kind outside Australia, |
| 1:28.4 | attempting to provide a comprehensive overview. The exhibition, almost entirely paintings, very consciously |
| 1:33.3 | begins not in the 18th century with a colonial-framed chronology of terra nullius, but with a room |
| 1:39.6 | of contemporary Indigenous Aboriginal art. It then embarks in a more traditional narrative, from the first |
| 1:45.3 | paintings of colonisers through to the multimedia installations of modern, multicultural Australia's |
| 1:51.0 | confident art scene. There are plenty of famous landmarks along the way, the gum trees of early |
| 1:56.5 | pastoral and impressionism based on European schools of painting, the intense sun, sky and red of the outback, |
| 2:03.4 | most famously on display in Sydney Nolan's distinctive Ned Kelly paintings. |
| 2:08.5 | Well, joining me to discuss the exhibition is its co-curator Kathleen Soriano, |
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