Philip Dodd talks to Edward Said , one of the world's pre-eminent cultural critics and a leading proponent of the Palestinian cause. In the light of the recent controversy over details of his early life, Said discusses his new memoir Out of Place, in which he talks about his childhood in Cairo, his fierce demanding father and other influences that helped shape his later writing. And in the third of this week's series on the cultural legacy of Marxism
Philip Dodd explores Marxism's impact on literature and literary criticism.