Front Row: Archive 2013

Simon Schama, Big Data art, Night of the Demon


Listen Later

With Kirsty Lang

Historian Simon Schama discusses the challenge of bringing his latest project The Story of the Jews to television, the importance of story-telling to the Jewish experience, and how his former professor inspired him to focus on bringing history to popular audiences.

The vast and ever-growing amount of information now stored on computer servers around the world has become a ready source of inspiration for artists. With an estimated 90 per cent of the world's data having been created in the last two years, there is plenty to call on. Artists Stanza and R Luke Dubois explain how they mine so-called "Big Data" to create images and music, and curator Hannah Redler describes how data has been used to make art since the early days of the internet.

The British Film Institute kicks off its Gothic Season with a restored print of cult classic Night Of The Demon. This 1957 horror, by Cat People director Jacques Tourneur, stars Dana Andrews as a psychologist who enters a battle of wills against a psychic and cult leader called Karswell. The film partly owes its cult status to its monster, one of the most famous in British film history, and Matthew Sweet goes on its trail.

Producer Ella-mai Robey.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Front Row: Archive 2013By BBC Radio 4

  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4

4

1 ratings


More shows like Front Row: Archive 2013

View all
In Our Time by BBC Radio 4

In Our Time

5,423 Listeners

The Documentary Podcast by BBC World Service

The Documentary Podcast

1,800 Listeners

Global News Podcast by BBC World Service

Global News Podcast

7,646 Listeners

6 Minute English by BBC Radio

6 Minute English

1,751 Listeners

Learning English Conversations by BBC Radio

Learning English Conversations

1,081 Listeners

Newshour by BBC World Service

Newshour

1,039 Listeners

Curious Cases by BBC Radio 4

Curious Cases

764 Listeners

13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle by BBC World Service

13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

4,194 Listeners

Americast by BBC News

Americast

701 Listeners

You're Dead to Me by BBC Radio 4

You're Dead to Me

2,960 Listeners

The Rest Is Politics by Goalhanger

The Rest Is Politics

3,001 Listeners

The Borris Broadcasts by The Festival of Writing and Ideas

The Borris Broadcasts

0 Listeners