16 February 2006
Thursday 16 February 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Director Perry Ogden on his highly acclaimed portrait of a traveller family living on the margins in Dublin; Kim Newman on Lost Worlds; Sue Steward on the Brazilian cultural movement Tropicalia.
Programme Details
On Night Waves tonight Matthew Sweet talks to Perry Ogden, director of Pavee Lackeen, Gaelic for 'the traveller girl'. The film tells the story of Winnie Maughan and her family, travellers living on the margins of Dublin's economic boom. Ogden uses a mixture of reportage and drama as he follows the lives of the Maughans - matriarch Rosie's battle to find a house for her family to live in, her son Patrick's brushes with the law. Always at the centre, though, is Winnie, whose radiant performance has been likened to that of David Bradley in Kes.
Also in the programme - as a new exhibition devoted to the Brazilian cultural movement opens at the Barbican, Matthew talks to music journalist Sue Steward about Tropicalia - the avant-garde wave of art and music which gave the world Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso.
And Susannah Clapp reviews Samuel Adamson's contemporary reworking of Ben Jonson's raucous slice of London life, Bartholomew Fair. Jonson's attempt to capture the diversity of his city, as well as its contemporary feel, set him apart from his peers - but can also make him tough-going for modern audiences. As Samuel Adamson's new play shows, however, Jonson's influence has never gone away.
Additional information:
Pavee Lackeen opens at the Ritzy and the Curzon Soho in London on 17th February, and is at cinemas in key cities around the country from March 10th.
Tropicalia opens at the Barbican in London on February 16th.
