Night Waves - Through a Glass Darkly, Nell Irvin Painter, Absent Fathers, Cornelia Parker

Philip Dodd with a first night theatre review of Ingmar Bergman's 'Through a Glass Darkly', adapted by Jenny Worton and starring Ruth Wilson. The only one of Bergman's films for which he gave permission for a stage adaptation 'Through a Glass Darkly' won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1962. In her new book, 'The History of White People' the African American writer Nell Irvin Painter argues that race is an idea, not a fact, and investigates theories of 'whiteness' from antiquity through the Enlightenment to present day American politics and culture and asks - what does 'white' mean in contemporary America? A new season on BBC4 explores fatherhood. The novelist Andrew Martin and the children's writer Michael Rosen discuss the significance of the absent father in literature. And there's an interview with the artist Cornelia Parker whose new show, 'Doubtful Sound', opens this week at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts in Gateshead.