Night Waves - Bret Easton Ellis, The Miners' Hymns, Georg Buchner

Anne McElvoy talks to Bret Easton Ellis about his latest novel, 'Imperial Bedrooms', the sequel to his 1985 debut 'Less than Zero' about a group of hedonistic Californian teenagers. Now, in 2010, they face an even more disaffected period of life, their own middle age. Bill Morrison discusses 'The Miners' Hymns', a collaboration with the Icelandic musician and composer Johann Johannson which celebrates the coal mining history in the North East of England. Johannson's ensemble of local brass and classical musicians will perform his composition in Durham Cathedral alongside Morrison's archive news, documentary and industry footage from the area. Anne and Michael Patterson discuss the work of nineteenth century Wunderkind playwright Georg Buchner. He wrote only three plays before his death at 23, but two of them Woyzeck and Danton's Death have become European classics. And Caroline Cox reviews an exhibition of Horrockses ready to wear fashion of the 1940s and 50s.