Nights for Wednesday 30 November 2011
7:10 Foot Perfect
Scottish director Sue Bourne on making a film called Jig, which follows a group of young people and their families as they prepare to participate in the fortieth Irish Dancing World Championships.
7:30 Movies: The Strand
Film items from the BBC arts and entertainment programme, The Strand presented by Harriett Gilbert. A review of the award-winning Argentine film, Las Acacias, a subtle road movie about a truck driver and a mother who travel from Paraguay to Buenos Aires.
8:00 News & Weather
8:15 Windows on the World
International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.
8:40 Arts: Visual Arts
Tuning our eyes to the objects of human creativity is Emma Bugden, senior curator from the Dowse... how an art award can be the catapult to success; in NZ, the Walters Awards & Wallace Awards, and then the world's most famous art award – the Turner Prize.
Links:
Wallace Art Awards
The Walters Prize
Turner Prize
9:00 News & Weather
9:06 The Wednesday Drama: Severed Threads by John Dryden - part 3
A three-part drama in which several stories, set in several continents, entwine into a compelling thriller. (BBC)
10:00 News & Weather
10:17 Late Edition
A review of the leading news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.
11:00 News & Weather
11:06 Jazz Live
Live performances from a diverse range of European jazz artists and groups.