Night Waves
Anne Enright, David Thomson, Data Silos, Les Parents Terribles
On this evening's Night Waves, Philip Dodd talks to the Booker prize winning author Anne Enright about Ireland and its relationship with the short story. Philip asks if there is something about Ireland that makes this form especially attractive to its writers. They revisit a discussion had in 2007 when Ireland was at the peak of its success. The film writer David Thomson unveils the latest edition of his Biographical Dictionary of film. It has been described "as the finest reference book ever written about movies". Gillian Tett, Assistant Editor of the Financial Times, and the technology writer Bill Thompson discuss the idea of "data-silos" - where information is held by a self-protecting groups, such as social networking sites, and not shared with others - why the inventor of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee says they're a bad thing and why Gillian feels this walled-garden mentality is one of the reasons for the recent banking crises and consequent economic problems. Susannah Clapp reviews the new production of Jean Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles. Producer: Natalie Steed.