Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Choral Concert
Radio Two: 8 am (8:30 am NT)
Choral Censorship from the outright to the more benign, less obvious manifestations of censorship. Choral Concert will delve into the various choral traditions which have been subjected to censorship in one form or another from Renaissance restraints on Palestrina and the classical world of Mozart (whose music was also subject to strict parameters imposed by the Roman Catholic Church) to Stalinist Russia and the effect of Marxist ideology on the choral music of Prokofiev and Shostakovitch.
Writers & Company
Radio One: 3 pm ET/AT (5 pm PT/MT/CT; 3:30 pm NT)
Eleanor Wachtel speaks with international writers about their personal experience of censorship. Eleanor will interview Shahriar Mondanipour, an Iranian novelist, essayist and editor. He was censored and threatened by the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance because of his literary and political activities, and has been unable to publish his work in Iran since 1992.
Shahriar Mondanipour
(Runs: 2:04) Play: Real Media »
Also featured is Pierre Mumbere Mujomba, a Congolese playwright and novelist. His conflict with the Congolese government stemmed from a production of one of his plays in 2003, performed as a commedia-style farce, which commented on the excesses of the Mobutu regime in the former Zaire. Mujomba was threatened and left the Congo after the intervention of PEN International.
Skylarking
Radio Two: 4 pm (5:30 pm NT)
Censorship: Is it better to know the dark or avoid it? Can sounds themselves be dangerous? Skylarking looks at censorship, in a show dedicated to the late, Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
The World This Weekend
Radio One and Radio Two: 6 pm (7 pm AT; 7:30 pm NT)
David McKie reports on the killing of writer journalist Tara Singh Hayer - a murder that remains unsolved to this day.
Audio Documentary (Runs: 8:38) Play: Real
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Rupinder
Hayer Bains Quote (Runs: 0:34) Play: Real
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Rupinder Hayer Bains stands in front of a photo of her late father receiving an award from former prime minister, Jean Chretien. (Photo credit: David McKie) |
