Night Waves
Peter Ackroyd, Norman Wisdom, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Jonathan Franzen
The writer Peter Ackroyd joins Matthew Sweet to talk about his new book 'The English Ghost'. Why do the English see more ghosts than the Welsh, the Scottish and the Irish? There's a celebration of Norman Wisdom's life as Night Waves takes a closer look at the comic art of slapstick. Twenty-three years after legendary trader Gordon Gekko met his downfall, we review director Oliver Stone's new film, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - how has the financial world changed in the decades since - and after a spell in prison, is inside-trader-turned-writer Gekko truly reformed? And Jonathan Franzen discusses his new novel 'Freedom' and its portrayal of the lives of suburban American families and their uncomfortable interactions with life, love, capitalism, politics and each other. Producer: Lisa Davis.