Night Waves - 10/12/2007

Philip Dodd talks to Italian writer Umberto Eco about his wide-ranging and diverse career, which has embraced best-selling novels such as The Name of the Rose, respected academic studies of semiotics, and witty literary essays on the issues of our time. Eco has declared that the condition of our age is that of history in reverse gear, symbolised by the return of once forgotten debates on Darwinism and imperial clashes in Afghanistan. He explains to Philip why we must put a brake on this tragic regression.