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25/11/2010

Pat Kane revisits interviews he conducted with leading cultural figures in the 1990s including JK Galbriath, Doris Lessing, Mort Sahl, Gore Vidal, George Steiner and JG Ballard.

5 hours, 30 minutes

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Thu 25 Nov 2010 00:30
大象传媒 Radio Scotland

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Chapters

  • JK Galbraith

    Pat Kane interviews the late world economist, friend and adviser to JFK and author of The Affluent Society and The Culture of Contentment.

    Duration: 47:42

  • Doris Lessing

    Pat Kane enjoys an encounter with the novelist, feminist and winner of the 2007 Novel Prize for Literature.

    Duration: 52:09

  • JG Ballard

    Pat Kane interviews the pioneering author of Crash, The Atrocity Exhibition, The Drowned World, Empire of the Sun and The Kindness of Women.

    Duration: 48:29

  • James MacMillan

    Pat Kane meets the leading Scottish composer, best known for The Confession of Isobel Gowdie.

    Duration: 49:59

  • George Steiner

    Pat Kane revels in an encounter with the brilliant and varied mind of the esteemed literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and linguistic polymath.

    Duration: 51:14

  • Gore Vidal

    Pat Kane in conversation with the American historical novelist and chronicler of the empire鈥檚 decline in titles such as Messiah, Lincoln, Empire and The Golden Age.

    Duration: 43:07

  • Mort Sahl

    Pat Kane chats to the American stand-up, Kennedy speech writer and later Kennedy conspiracy theorist and a direct contemporary of Lenny Bruce.

    Duration: 23:53

Broadcast

  • Thu 25 Nov 2010 00:30
    大象传媒 Radio Scotland