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David Starkey, Meek's Cutoff, David Lodge

Matthew Sweet visits the new Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, designed by architect David Chipperfield and which houses a permanent display of Turner's works.

In tonight鈥檚 Night Waves, Matthew Sweet takes trip to the seaside to visit the Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate. Designed by the architect David Chipperfield, it is Britain鈥檚 newest arts centre and hopes to do for Margate what the Guggenheim did for Bilbao.

As the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton approaches, the historian David Starkey discusses how the marriage rules imported with George I of Hanover stipulated that the only fit bride for a Prince was a Princess. This had the effect of keeping Britain's royal family German for 200 years, leading to a crisis when Britain and Germany went to war.

Plus: a review of the new Western Meek鈥檚 Cutoff starring Michelle Williams: Sir Christopher Frayling gives his verdict on this tale of settler鈥檚 travelling through the Oregon desert.

And the novelist David Lodge on his latest book, a fusion of novel and biography which tells the story of the writer H.G Wells.

45 minutes

Last on

Tue 12 Apr 2011 21:15

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  • Tue 12 Apr 2011 21:15

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