Sunday Feature: The World is Out of Order!

- The Life, Work and Legacy of Georg Buchner: Peter Thompson, an expert on German literature, culture and politics, investigates the life of Georg Buchner and considers the importance today of the revolutionary dramatist. Buchner, who was only 23 when he died of typhus in Zurich in 1837, was a biological scientist and also a revolutionary. After temporarily fleeing his homeland, to escape arrest, he wrote Danton's Death, which is now widely regarded as the greatest play about revolution. Peter investigates the circumstances of Buchner's life and the society in which he lived. He hears from scholars such as Professor Susanne Kord of University College, London and Professor Karen Leeder of Oxford University about his importance to German letters and thought, and from Howard Brenton, whose version of Danton's Death was recently produced by the National Theatre