Monday 4 September 2017

Midnight's Children: Salman Rushdie In Conversation

MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN: SALMAN RUSHDIE IN CONVERSATION (320kbs-m4a/30mb/13mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 15th August 2017


To accompany BBC Radio 4's major new dramatisation of Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie talks to radio drama director Emma Harding about his multi-award winning novel. They discuss the initial impetus for the novel and the mirroring of his own life as a child born 70 years ago in 1947, the year of India's Partition.

Rushdie also talks about the break-through moment of finding Saleem's voice, his attempt to represent the multiplicity of India in a single novel, and his pessimism about the direction of travel of India and Pakistan today.

Produced by Emma Harding.

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