Night Waves - Money, Globish, Tyler Perry, Nicolai Lilin

In tonight's Night Waves Rana Mitter is joined by the broadcaster Anne Karpf to review the new television adaptation of Martin Amis's seminal novel of the 1980s 'Money'. Also in the programme, a discussion about the contemporary phenomenon of 'Globish', a buzz-word coined to describe a language developing where the English language meets the Digital Age, and which is becoming so popular in Africa and China that some predict it will become the world-wide dialect of a globalised world. Rana discusses 'Globish' with Robert McCrum who has written a new book on the subject, and explores how technology has re-invented the English language, allowing it to spread through cyberspace uncoupled from Post Colonial controversy. Rana will be talking to Tyler Perry, the film writer, producer and director. Perry was born in poverty in New Orleans but last year became the sixth highest paid man in Hollywood with films that have grossed over 400 million dollars worldwide. The first African American to own a major film and TV studio he'll be discussing his new complex in Atlanta and the significance to him of his Christian faith. Rana Mitter meets Nicolai Lilin, whose memoir recounts his life growing up in the tough criminal gangs of Siberia, a comminity displaced to a forgotten corner of Eastern Europe by the Soviet regime. They operate by a strict code of honour which Lilin only escaped by joining the Russian army in Chechnya. He has now escaped the criminal life to write a European bestseller about his past - including prison at the age of 12.