Night Waves - Michael Burleigh, Sean Sculley and Abstraction, Opera: Do the Words Matter?

Rana Mitter talks to the Nobel prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus about his new book, Building Social Business and his ideas as to how capitalism can address pressing human needs. He says the theory and practice of this idea is growing in the business, academic and philanthropic worlds. Rana talks to the historian Michael Burleigh about the moral perceptions of different sides in the Second World War Rana and the critic Anna Moszynska consider the work of Sean Scully one of our most acclaimed abstract artists whose new show, the first in London for four years, opens later this week. And in that most sublime of musical forms, opera, how much do the words really matter? Rana and his guests the critic Susan Hitch, artistic director of Tete-a-Tete opera company Bill Bankes-Jones and the music academic Roderick Swanston discuss librettists, singing in English and the vexed question of surtitles.