Night Waves - Stanislavski

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4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2013

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the life and work of the Russian director Konstantin Stanislavski, born 150 years ago this month. Adam Mars-Jones reviews Utopia, a new drama on Channel 4. Which should be our priority, growing the economy or protecting the environment? Environmental campaigner Tony Juniper joins Anne, along with Dr Benny Peiser to discuss. And the historian Jonathan Healey, one of our New Generation Thinkers, reflects on the proposals to change succession laws and what they might mean for the future of our monarchy.

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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. This is a download
0:32.8	from the BBC. For more information and our terms of use, go to BBC.co.uk slash radio three.
0:41.0	Tonight on the programme as the monarchy faces upheavals of succession, we'll be disentangling the rights of kings and queens with one of our new generation thinkers.
0:50.3	And ecology versus economics, is it time to end the feud between Greens and the market?
0:55.8	Stanislavski is 150, a trio of theatrical experts, will be joining me to trace the legacy of Russia's great realist.
1:03.0	But first, are you sitting uncomfortably? A new thriller about a mysterious conspiracy is about to prickle the hairs on your neck.
1:10.7	It's a comic? No, it hairs on your neck. It's a comic?
1:11.6	No, it's a graphic novel.
1:14.6	It's called a utopia experiments.
1:17.6	It's about a scientist who makes a deal with the devil for knowledge.
1:22.6	The devil appears in a number of guises, but always as an animal human hybrid.
1:28.3	Most notably, a rabbit.
1:30.3	A rabbit?
1:31.3	Yeah.
1:32.3	Oh, so what, he's in it then?
1:33.3	The guy that wrote this.
1:35.3	It's about him.
1:36.3	Hardly original.
1:37.3	I mean, Bikowski.
1:39.3	Hmm.
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