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Publixing - Slovenské a české audioknihyĎalšia nezvestnáNie každý, kto je nezvestný, by mal byť nájdený. Lebo ak ho nájdu, všetko bude stratené.
Dvadsaťdvaročná Olivia zmizla bez stopy. Naposledy ju zachytili pouličné kamery, ako vchádza do slepej uličky, odkiaľ sa už nevrátila.
Detektívka Julia Dayová našla počas dvadsaťročnej praxe takmer každého nezvestného. Má bohaté skúsenosti so zúfalými rodinami zmiznutých, uvedomuje si neúprosne plynúci čas, ktorý vždy hrá proti nej... Jej povolanie si vyberá svoju daň, práca ju oberá o chvíle s dcérou a rozkladá jej m...2025-06-1726 min
Audinovinky - Audioknihy, knihy a podcasty#227 - Audioknižní sinusoidaMichal tvrdí, že tenhle díl podcastu Audinovinky bude skvělý, jeden z nejlepších. A Michal má vždycky pravdu. Až na chvíle, kdy ji nemá… ale ty už si letos vybral, takže mu můžete v klidu věřit. Skvělé audioknihy nové i starší tentokrát umístíme na speciální sinusoidu a průběh zařazování opravdu nebudete čekat.
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Dash Arts PodcastThe Reckoning: Truth-Telling Theatre“All good art is an attempt to wrestle with truth” In the fourth episode on the journey towards our production, The Reckoning, Dash’s Artistic Director, Josephine Burton is in conversation with Author and Playwright Gillian Slovo discussing the power of theatre and the responsibilities involved in bringing real people’s stories to the stage. As Dash Arts prepares to produce a theatre production rooted in the testimonies of survivors of the war in Ukraine, Josephine searches for insights into how to create powerful drama whilst doing justice to the people who have lent their stories. Gillian...2024-12-0349 min
The InterviewGillian Slovo: Has her writing exorcised demons?Stephen Sackur speaks to Gillian Slovo whose acclaimed fiction, plays and memoirs reflect an extraordinary backstory. The daughter of South African parents whose struggle against apartheid brought prison and exile and in her mother’s case, assassination. Has her writing exorcised demons?2024-05-2023 min
KPFA - Democracy Now!Democracy Now 6am – May 10, 2024On today’s show:
12 Arrested Outside NYC’s New School as First Faculty-Led Gaza Solidarity Encampment Continues
“We Feel Unheard”: Hunger-Striking Princeton Students Vow to Fast Until Divestment Demands Are Met
Senate Candidate Larry Hamm on ’70s Anti-Apartheid Protests at Princeton and Voting “Uncommitted” in NJ
Playwright Gillian Slovo: I Grew Up in Apartheid South Africa. I Saw the Same Thing in Palestine
“Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors”: Play Tells Story of 2017 London Apartment Fire That Killed 72
The post Democracy Now 6am – May 10, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.
2024-05-1059 min
Theatre Audience PodcastA Theatrical Triple Feature: Grenfell, Horrible Histories, and Brokeback MountainStep into a world of impactful theatre as we unpack the latest podcast episode. We kick things off with Grenfell: in the words of survivors at the National Theatre. This powerful verbatim play draws directly from the testimonies of the residents at the heart of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. With six years passed since the devastating event, the interviews with survivors and bereaved individuals lay bare the shocking impact of the failures that led to this national disaster. Gillian Slovo masterfully weaves these voices into a narrative that raises urgent questions about prevention and justice. Co-directed...2023-08-2124 min
AmanpourUS Republican presidential candidate Chris ChristieDespite the intense legal heat of three indictments, and the mounting cost of expensive lawyers, Donald Trump is ahead of the rest of the pack, racing to become the 2024 Republican presidential nominee. Most of his rivals are too timid to take him on, but not Chris Christie. The former federal prosecutor, New Jersey governor, and now Republican presidential candidate, Christie says that Trump "cannot be the nominee" and will not win the election against Biden. He joins the show from New York.
Also on today's show: playwright Gillian Slovo; author James McBride To learn more ab...2023-08-0955 min
The Standard Theatre PodcastCrazy for You’s Charlie Stemp & Tom Edden; Dr Semmelweis and Grenfell: in the words of survivors reviewsWest End and Broadway stars Charlie Stemp and Tom Edden join us to chat about the critically acclaimed musical Crazy For You. Charlie says it's "the hardest thing" he's ever done due to the many elements involved, including performing extremely physical choreography and comedy in perfect timing. They also discuss the challenges of their hilarious Marx Brothers-inspired mirror scene, and reveal what it was like working with Tony award-winning theatre director Susan Stroman.We review the National Theatre’s Bristol Old Vic Production of Dr Semmelweis at the Harold Pinter Theatre. It's written by Stephen Brown, directed by...2023-08-0633 min
Woman's HourWeekend Woman's Hour: Men and stopping sexist behaviour, Grenfell play, Date StackingWhat role should men play in stopping sexist behaviour? Several campaigns have aimed to tackle this, the most recent being the Mayor of London’s Maaate initiative. To discuss we're joined by Karen Whybro, a woman’s safety consultant and Graham Goulden, the former Chief Inspector at Police Scotland who now offers training to organisations to improve team culture.This year marks the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire where 72 people lost their lives. A new play created from interviews conducted with a group of survivors has opened at the National Theatre. Grenfell: in the words of s...2023-07-2943 minWoman's HourNarcissistic mothers, Grenfell play, Orca whale mothers & their sonsOver the last few months we have been hearing the stories of women who believe that they were raised by mothers who have Narcissistic Personality Disorder. And, a woman who has been labelled a narcissist by her daughter. Today, two psychotherapists who have worked extensively in this field, Dr Jan McGregor Hepburn and Helen Villiers, who has an MA in working therapeutically with adult children of narcissists, join Nuala to answer some of the questions raised by the powerful testimonies heard in the series.
Have you ever witnessed a mature, grown male sticking close to – and being very dependent on...2023-07-2557 min
Publixing - Slovenské a české audioknihyChristian White - NezvestnáPsychotriler o žene odhaľujúcej zničujúce tajomstvá svojej rodiny a vlastnej identite.
Pri vyučovaní na komunitnej škole v Melbourne sa cez prestávku prihovorí učiteľke fotografovania Kim Leamyovej neznámy muž s americkým prízvukom. Vysvetlí jej, že pátra po zmiznutom dievčatku z Mansonu v americkom štáte Kentucky. Kim prekvapí, že k tej udalosti došlo už pred dvadsiatimi ôsmimi rokmi. A ako je možné, že neznámeho priviedlo pátranie až do Austrálie?
Muž je presvedčený, že tým strateným dievčatkom je Kim. Najprv ju to pobaví, v...2020-07-1524 min
ILFDublin Podcast'Why Write?' with Susie Orbach - ILFDublin PodcastAs part of ILFDublin 2018, renowned writer, psychotherapist and feminist thinker Susie Orbach is joined in discussion by novelist and playwright, Gillian Slovo and Danielle Mclaughlin, author of Dinosaurs On Other Planets.
ILFDublin is an initiative of Dublin City Council, kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.2020-04-241h 10
Saturday ReviewHeather at the Bush Theatre; 78/52 film; Ali Smith's novel, Winter; Monochrome at the National Gallery; Babylon BerlinHeather is a play at London's Bush Theatre about a reclusive children's author who becomes famous
78/52 is a star-studded 90 minute film analysing the infamous shower scene in Hitchcock's Psycho. In less than three minutes it has 78 set-ups and 52 edit cuts and is a transformatory moment of cinema.
Ali Smith's second novel in her seasonal series is Winter; family ructions around a Christmas gathering looking back through previous gatherings
Monochrome at The National Gallery in London is an exhibition looking at how and why artists in different eras have worked in black and white. And nowadays they can work in...2017-11-0446 min
This Writing LifeEpisode 113 - Gary Younge: Part 1Gary Younge is an acclaimed writer and journalist, best known for his reporting on the United States for the Guardian in the United Kingdom. The author of several books, he spoke to This Writing Life podcast about his most recent: Another Day in the Death in America (Faber & Faber). As he explains in the introduction, its premise is tragically simple: every day on average seven children and teens are shot dead by guns in America. Younge decided to tell the story of one day, 23rd November 2013, selected at random, on which 10 young people were killed.
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2017-05-3016 minSaturday ReviewAngels In America, The Ferryman, Harmonium, Laurent Binet, Eric GillA revival of Tony Kushner's epic play about the US AIDS epidemic Angels In America is being staged at London's National Theatre. It's nearly 8 hours long (in two parts); is it still pertinent and is it worth sitting through?
Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem was an enormous theatrical success and his latest The Ferryman has just opened at London's Royal Court Theatre. Set during The Troubles in Northern Ireland it deals with one family's unavoidable and unwilling involvement
The family at the heart of Japanese film Harmonium seem to have a functioning but unemotional stability. And then a stranger comes into...2017-05-0647 min
Ås biblioteks podcastTen DaysKarine prater om "Ten Days" av Gillian Slovo.
Bokprat fra 28.03.172017-03-2824 minSaturday ReviewUncle Vanya, Triple 9, The Night Manager, Mend the Living, Delacroixa bunch of corrupt cops stage a bank heist in Triple 9; but can there honour among thieves in such a high-stakes job?
Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at London's Almeida Theatre has been adapted and directed by Robert Icke giving it a fresh contemporary feel.
John leCarre's 1993 novel The Night Manager has become a 6 part BBCTV series. Espionage, amoral weapons dealers, beautiful tragic women; all the best ingredients are there, what does it add up to?
Award-winning French novelist Maylis de Kerangal's latest work translated into English is Mend The Living - dissecting 24 hours of a human heart.
The first major...2016-02-2042 min
Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfBarrel of a Gun? The Armed Struggle for Democracy in South AfricaContributor(s): Gillian Slovo | Gillian Slovo will reflect on revolutionary heroism and the impact of the ANC’s turn to armed struggle in the fight for democracy in South Africa. Gillian Slovo is a South African born novelist, playwright and memoirist. Robin Archer is Associate Professor in Political Sociology and Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme at LSE. The Ralph Miliband Programme (@rmilibandlse) is one of LSE's most prestigious lecture series and seeks to advance Ralph Miliband's spirit of free social inquiry.2015-05-0551 minSummer 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoBarrel of a Gun? The Armed Struggle for Democracy in South AfricaContributor(s): Gillian Slovo | Gillian Slovo will reflect on revolutionary heroism and the impact of the ANC’s turn to armed struggle in the fight for democracy in South Africa. Gillian Slovo is a South African born novelist, playwright and memoirist. Robin Archer is Associate Professor in Political Sociology and Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme at LSE. The Ralph Miliband Programme (@rmilibandlse) is one of LSE's most prestigious lecture series and seeks to advance Ralph Miliband's spirit of free social inquiry.2015-05-0551 min
PM"Some will never forgive Eugene de Kock"Gillian Slovo's mother, Ruth First was a peace activist who was murdered by the South African police in 1982. Her father Joe Slovo was chief of staff in the ANC. She gave evidence to the Truth and Reconciliation Committee in 1998 and now lives in London . What does the name Eugene de Kock mean to her?2015-01-3006 minSaturday ReviewVan Gogh, Mondrian, Nicholson Baker, Hotel, The DirtiesThe Dirties is a Canadian indie film about a couple of friends planning to make a film about a Columbine-style school massacre, where the bullies will be made to pay for what they've done. It begins to dawn on one of them that his best friend might actually be hatching a bloody murderous revenge.The main character in Nicholson Baker's latest novel "Travelling Sprinkler" is a poet who has fallen out of love with writing poems. Trying to become a songwriter, we see his personal life woven into his lyrics.The work of Dutch artist...2014-06-0741 min
In the Psychiatrist's ChairGillian SlovoSouth African-born playwright and novelist Gillian Slovo shares thoughts about her parents' dedication to their cause. Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare's in depth interviews with prominent people from different walks of life. Born in Dublin, author Anthony held a doctorate in medicine, a master's degree in philosophy and was a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. After becoming a regular on BBC Radio 4's Stop the Week in the 1980s, he became Britain's best-known psychiatrist and earned his own vehicle, In the Psychiatrist's Chair. Starting in 1982, this series ran until 2001 and also transferred to TV...2014-06-0738 minSaturday ReviewNymphomaniac; True Detective; A Taste of HoneyWill Gompertz is joined by this week's reviewers Ekow Eshun, Viv Groskop and Gillian Slovo. They've watched both parts, some four hours in total, of Lars von Trier's controversial film, Nymphomaniac. We hear what they make of the provocative director's latest offering which focuses on the sexual adventures of Joe, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stacy Martin.True Detective is the latest TV series from HBO, the US network behind The Sopranos, The Wire and, most recently, Game of Throne. Does the new eight part drama starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson live up to form?2014-02-2241 minSaturday ReviewMorrissey; The Selfish Giant; From Here to EternityA new film, The Selfish Giant, loosely based on an original Oscar Wilde fairy story, brings the story up to date and follows the lives of a couple of teenage boys who bunk off school to go trading scrap metal. It's director Clio Barnard's second film set in the north of England; what sort of performances has she got from the two main leads who have never acted before?From Here to Eternity, a new musical based as much on the 1951 novel by James Jones as it is on the 1953 film (which starred Burt Lancaster canoodling in...2013-10-2641 minSaturday ReviewThe Amen Corner and The White QueenThe Amen Corner starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste has been lifting the roof off the National Theatre according to early audiences, thanks partly to the participation of the London Community Gospel Choir. An early James Baldwin play, Rufus Norris' production looks at the lives of men and women trapped in poverty and lack of opportunity, and extracts powerful drama from it.Joss Whedon had a week off at the end of shooting The Avengers - rather than have a break, he made another film with a group of friends. The result is Much Ado About Nothing - does its...2013-06-1541 min
Durham Book Festival 2012Gillian Slovo: Honour and DestinyGillian Slovo talks about her new novel, An Honourable Man. Set in the Sudan and London of 1884, this historical epic is played out against the shambolic end of the British Empire. Slovo draws on the lives of two real men: heroic army man Charles Gordon, and WT Stead, the father of tabloid journalism, for this moving account of military mayhem and political compromise and foreign adventure doomed to failure. Gillian Slovo is a South African-born novelist and memoirist whose work has explored both the personal and political. Her novel Ice Road was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.2013-04-1657 minNew Writing NorthGillian Slovo: Honour and DestinyGillian Slovo talks about her new novel, An Honourable Man. Set in the Sudan and London of 1884, this historical epic is played out against the shambolic end of the British Empire. Slovo draws on the lives of two real men: heroic army man Charles Gordon, and WT Stead, the father of tabloid journalism, for this moving account of military mayhem and political compromise and foreign adventure doomed to failure. Gillian Slovo is a South African-born novelist and memoirist whose work has explored both the personal and political. Her novel Ice Road was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.2013-04-1657 min
Grab The Captivating Full Audiobook Experience!The General: The ordinary man who challenged Guantanamo by Ahmed Errachidi, Gillian SlovoPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/242178to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The General: The ordinary man who challenged Guantanamo
Author: Ahmed Errachidi, Gillian Slovo
Narrator: Gillian Slovo, Amerjit Deu
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Release date: March 28, 2013
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
On 11 September 2001, in a café in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But he couldn’t possibly have predicted how much of his own life he too would lose because of that day. In a series of terrible events, Ahmed was sold by the Pakistanis to...2013-03-286h 55
Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceThe General: The ordinary man who challenged Guantanamo by Ahmed Errachidi, Gillian SlovoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/242178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The General: The ordinary man who challenged Guantanamo Author: Ahmed Errachidi, Gillian Slovo Narrator: Gillian Slovo, Amerjit Deu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 28, 2013 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: On 11 September 2001, in a café in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But he couldn’t possibly have predicted how much of his own life he too would lose because of that day. In a series of terrible events, Ahmed was sold by the Pak...2013-03-2805 minDownload Incredible Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceThe General: The ordinary man who challenged Guantanamo by Ahmed Errachidi, Gillian SlovoPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/242178to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The General: The ordinary man who challenged Guantanamo
Author: Ahmed Errachidi, Gillian Slovo
Narrator: Gillian Slovo, Amerjit Deu
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Release date: March 28, 2013
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
On 11 September 2001, in a café in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But he couldn’t possibly have predicted how much of his own life he too would lose because of that day. In a series of terrible events, Ahmed was sold by the Pakistanis to...2013-03-286h 55
Discover Audiobook in Bios & Memoirs, Political FiguresThe General by Ahmed Errachidi | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: The General
Author: Ahmed Errachidi, Gillian Slovo
Narrator: Amerjit Deu
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-28-13
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Summary:
On 11 September 2001, in a café in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But he couldnt possibly have predicted how much of his own life he too would lose because of that day.
In a series of terrible events, Ahmed was sold by the Pakistanis to t...2013-03-286h 54Saturday ReviewWreck-It Ralph, and Ice Age art at the British MuseumWreck-It Ralph is the latest Disney offering, arriving in time for children at half-term. Its hero is a wouldbegood bad guy trapped in a destructive role in a video game, voiced by John C Reilly. It's got plenty of retro game nostalgia and jokes that children and adults will enjoy but does it have the longevity of the classic Disney movies?Ice Age Art at the British Museum aims to show that in surviving figurative art from over 20,000 years ago we can see the arrival of the modern mind. Remarkable figures are on show such as the...2013-02-0941 minSaturday Review08/12/2012Martin McDonagh's latest film Seven Psychopaths is his follow-up to the hit In Bruges. It's just as blood-soaked, but it's left Belgium behind for the more traditional movie settings of LA and the American desert, as screenwriter Marty, played by Colin Farrell, struggles to write a script for his film that has only a name: Seven Psychopaths. Do a star-studded cast and some fabulous lines add up to another great film?A highly-anticipated all-women production by Phyllida Lloyd of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Donmar Warehouse includes cast members from the prison theatre group Clean Break, along...2012-12-0841 min
Front Row: Archive 2012Mark Rylance as Richard III, Herman Koch, Searching for SugarmanWith Kirsty Lang. Mark Rylance returns to the stage for the first time since his award-winning performance in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem. Andrew Dickson reviews Rylance in the lead role in a new production of Richard III at Shakespeare's Globe in London. Dutch novelist Herman Koch discusses his novel The Dinner, which has sold over a million copies in Europe. Set during one evening in a restaurant in Amsterdam, it tells the story of two couples who meet over dinner to discuss both their 15-year-old sons who have committed an atrocity, and shattered the comfortable worlds of...2012-07-2628 minSaturday Review23/06/2012Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelist Gillian Slovo and writers Sarfraz Manzoor and Maev Kennedy review the week's cultural highlights including The Last of the HaussmansStephen Beresford's play The Last of the Haussmans at the National Theatre in London stars Julie Walters as Judy - an aging child of the 60s whose children Libby (Helen McCrory) and Nick (Rory Kinnear) feel that her lofty ideals are no substitute for proper parenting and a substantial inheritance.The narrator of Ancient Light by John Banville is Alexander Cleave - an actor in his sixties, remembering the...2012-06-2341 minSaturday Review31/03/2012Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Gillian Slovo, Kathryn Hughes and David Benedict review the week's cultural highlights including The Chemistry of Tears.In Peter Carey's extraordinary latest novel, The Chemistry of Tears, Catherine Gehrig, conservator at a museum, learns of the sudden death of her colleague and lover of thirteen years. As the mistress of a married man, she must struggle to keep the depth of her anguish to herself. Catherine is given a special project in a quiet annexe where she reluctantly unpacks an eerie automaton that she has been charged with bringing back to life.2012-03-3141 minSaturday Review28/01/2012Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer Ekow Eshun, creative director of the Royal Opera House Deborah Bull and literary critic John Carey review the week's cultural highlights including Alexander Payne's film The Descendants.The Descendants - directed and written by Alexander Payne - stars George Clooney as a Honolulu lawyer and land-owner forced to take a more hands-on role parental role when a power-boat accident leaves his wife in a coma.Gillian Slovo's novel An Honourable Man is set in Khartoum in 1884 where General Gordon is trying to organise the defence of the besieged city...2012-01-2842 min
Front Row WeeklyFR:Kate Bush, Gillian Slovo & Bruce ForsythKate Bush discusses her new album and Sir Bruce Forsyth celebrates 70 years in showbusiness. Tim Minchin talks about writing his hit musical Matilda which has opened in the West End and Gillian Slovo discusses her new play which addresses the London riots. John Craven on forty years in broadcasting and we hear a review of My Week with Marilyn2011-11-251h 06
Front Row: Archive 2011Gillian Slovo on The Riots; WWII film ResistanceWith Kirsty LangThe Riots, a new play by Gillian Slovo, draws on 55 hours of interviews with people who were involved in the disturbances earlier this year, ranging from policemen to the rioters themselves. She reflects on whether theatre can help to uncover the truth behind the unrest.A sound designer won the prize for Best Design at last night's Evening Standard Theatre Awards, winning against three set designers. Adam Cork discusses the soundscapes he created for productions including Derek Jacobi's King Lear. Resistance is a new film based on a novel by...2011-11-2128 min
Camden Community RadioWhat's on in Camden for week beginning November 21stAndrew Marr on the Diamond Queen at the British Library – to book, call 01937 546 546. Tricycle Theatre premieres ‘The Riots’ a play by Gillian Slovo and Nicolas Kent, which is built around evidence and communications at the time, presents its own conclusions on the events of the Summer 2011. ‘My Father’s Watch’ a play by John Dunne based on Patrick Maguire’s biography, is on at the Irish Centre. Tickets 07981 851 554. Its Mowtown night at the Fiddlers Elbow. ‘Tall Ships and Tropical Disease’ is a walk with a talk from the Wellcome Collection. London Conference on ‘Localism’ for tenants, residents, community and voluntary sector group...2011-11-2005 minSaturday Review30/07/2011Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer Gillian Slovo, historian Dominic Sandbrook and anthropologist Kit Davis review the week's cultural highlights including Julian Barnes' new novel.The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes is narrated by Tony Webster, a man in his sixties who is forced to think again about the story of his life when he receives a lawyer's letter about an unexpected and puzzling bequest. His problem is that he can't be sure how reliable his memory is about two significant events in his life.Lee Chang-dong's film Poetry won the Korean director...2011-07-3042 minSaturday Review14/05/2011Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelists Gillian Slovo and Michael Arditti and writer Ekow Eshun review the week's cultural highlights including A Delicate Balance.James MacDonald's production of A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee at the Almeida Theatre in London stars Penelope Wilton and Tim Piggot-Smith as Agnes and Tobias - a middle-aged couple who share a home with Agnes's alcoholic sister (Imelda Staunton). The couple's lives are knocked off balance when their daughter returns home and their friends Harry and Edna turn up in flight from some existential dread.The aftermath of the 1971 Bangladeshi...2011-05-1442 min
BookclubGillian SlovoJames Naughtie and readers talk to Gillian Slovo about her novel Red Dust, a courtroom drama set in post-apartheid South Africa. Gillian is the daughter of Joe Slovo, one of the founding members of the African National Congress, and Ruth First, an anti-apartheid campaigner murdered by security forces in the early 1980s. The novel draws heavily on Gillian's own experience of coming face to face with her mother's killer during the Truth and Reconciliation hearings of the new South Africa.2009-10-0427 min![CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [video]](http://chiasmos.uchicago.edu/chiasmosPodcastLogo_05_144.jpg)
CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [video]"Human Rights and the Arts: Guantanamo in the Theater" (video)A talk by Gillian Slovo, co-author of the play "Guantanamo: 'Honor-Bound to Defend Freedom.'" South African-born Gillian Slovo has published a family memoir and ten novels, including Ice Road, which was short-listed for the Orange Prize. From the Human Rights Distinguished Lecturer Series; co-sponsored by the Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies.2006-11-131h 04CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [audio]"Human Rights and the Arts: Guantanamo in the Theater"A talk by Gillian Slovo, co-author of the play "Guantanamo: 'Honor-Bound to Defend Freedom.'" South African-born Gillian Slovo has published a family memoir and ten novels, including Ice Road, which was short-listed for the Orange Prize. From the Human Rights Distinguished Lecturer Series; co-sponsored by the Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies.2006-11-131h 15
University of Chicago Human Rights Program Distinguished Lecturer Series"Human Rights and the Arts: Guantanamo in the Theater"A talk by Gillian Slovo, co-author of the play "Guantanamo: 'Honor-Bound to Defend Freedom.'" South African-born Gillian Slovo has published a family memoir and ten novels, including Ice Road, which was short-listed for the Orange Prize. From the Human Rights Distinguished Lecturer Series; co-sponsored by the Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies.2006-11-1300 min
World Book ClubGillian SlovoSouth African novelist, Gillian Slovo talks about her novel 'Red Dust'. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.2004-07-2926 min