Podcasts Culture Arts & Ideas Night Waves - Verdi 200, Dayanita Singh, 2000 years of social media

Night Waves - Verdi 200, Dayanita Singh, 2000 years of social media

Published: Oct. 10, 2013, 12:02 p.m.

Social media, as old as Cicero and as revolutionary as Christianity? Tom Standage and William Dutton join Philip Dodd to explore our networked world and to question whether social media alters historic mappings of power and authority. Photographer Dayanita Singh discusses her new retrospective at London\u2019s Hayward gallery and her approach to the camera. As part of Verdi 200, Radio 3\u2019s season celebrating the composer\u2019s bicentenary, music historian Sarah Lenton and scholar Ren\xe9 Weis explore Verdi\u2019s passion for Shakespeare.