Night Waves - Eric Schlosser, Richard II

Published: Oct. 18, 2013, 1:04 p.m.

Susannah Clapp joins Anne McElvoy for the very first review of David Tennant\u2019s much anticipated performance as the lead in Shakespeare's Richard II. Writer and journalist Eric Schlosser reveals a series of near-disasters in the history of management of nuclear weapons. New Generation Thinker Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough has a sneak preview of the Illuminating York Festival, which celebrates the city\u2019s Viking history. Richard Burton on his new biography of poet Basil Bunting.