Night Waves - 21/02/2008

Gabriel Gbadamosi visits Wibsey Working Men's club in Bradford, the setting for director Henry Singer's documentary for the forthcoming BBC Two 'White' season, to explore the state of social cohesion in modern Britain. Stefan Collini, professor of intellectual history at Cambridge University, and writer Laurence Norfolk discuss the 20th century's men and women of letters, the role of the critic, and the place of intelligence and intellectuals both inside and outside universities. To mark the opening of David Farr's African version of Brecht's The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, Gabriel asks if the current trend of African makeovers on the stage goes more than skin deep. Plus a review of David McVicar's new production of Salome at the Royal Opera.