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Night Waves - Sheryl Sandberg

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2599 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2013

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Anne McElvoy and Susannah Clapp review the west-end play Doktor Glas, starring Krister Henricksson, best known in the UK for his role as Kurt Wallander. Sheryl Sandberg the chief operating officer of Facebook talks about her new book, Lean In, describing how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers and encourages women to sit at the table and pursue their goals. Saloua Raouda Choucair has her first international exhibition at Tate Modern. Richard Cork and Karl Sharro assess her work and examine how she fits within 20th century art history. Thane Rosenbaum and Salil Tripathi discuss revenge and justice.

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

And tonight on nightwaves, Cheryl Sandberg, the top woman at Facebook on how women can get further, faster in the workplace.

0:48.4

Women have to smile more. I don't like that advice at all.

0:52.3

But if we have to smile a little more to get equal pay, let's do it.

0:56.0

And then we'll change the system where we no longer have to smile to get equal pay.

1:00.9

Cheryl Sandberg, more from her shortly.

1:03.4

One of the Middle East's most important artists, Sir Louis Choucair, gets a major show at London's tape modern,

1:08.7

and is revenge best eaten cold or not at all.

1:11.8

A controversial new book speaks up for payback time.

1:15.1

But first, many of us have been in the grip of those tense Scandy dramas on TV,

1:19.5

but can their success be repeated on stage?

1:22.3

We're about to find out,

1:23.7

because Krista Henriksen, best known here for his role as Kurt Wallander

1:27.3

in the Swedish detective series,

1:29.2

is appearing from this week in the West End in Dr Glass.

1:32.9

It's an adaptation of Hialmar Soderberg's 1905 novel, performed as a one-man show in Swedish.

1:39.4

The novel was highly contentious in its day, addressing marital rape, euthanasia,

1:45.4

and whether it's excusable to take a life to protect another.

1:47.7

Henriksen plays the lonely Stockholm doctor, who manoeuvres, lies and ultimately kills

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