Night Waves - 26/09/2007

Philip Dodd is joined by historian Orlando Figes and innovative film-maker Julie Taymor. Figes's new book, The Whisperers, examines life for ordinary people under Stalin's dictatorship, and asks whether it was possible to preserve a sense of private identity within a totalitarian state. Julie Taymor, best known for turning The Lion King into a West End hit, discusses her new film Across the Universe, which explores Sixties radical protest and mind exploration.