Night Waves - 09/01/2008

Kenan Malik is joined by film critic Nigel Floyd and Middle East expert Fred Halliday to discuss Charlie Wilson's War, the new film starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts about secret American funding of the Afghan mujahideen fighting the Russians in the 1980s – and the consequences since. Novelist and screenwriter William Boyd talks about guest editing the hundredth edition of the innovative literary magazine Granta. Also, as the 60th anniversary of Gandhi's death approaches, Kenan debates the usefulness of non-violence with his studio guests, while the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek explains why he thinks that violence extends beyond the infliction of physical damage.