India always changes people, and I have been no exception.
The novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is scriptwriter for a team that have been making feature films together for nearly 20 years - Merchant-Ivory Productions. Evacuated from Nazi Germany as a child, of Polish-Jewish parents, she was educated in England. Marriage took her to India, which has provided the setting for many of her stories and novels. She writes as an insider, although her background has made her a permanent exile.
Tonight's interview looks at the way Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has portrayed the Indians and the English in her screenplays - her sympathetic observation of the tragi-comedy of clashing civilisations.
With extracts from Shakespeare Wallah , Bombay Talkie, Autobiography of a Princess, Roseland, and Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures.
Producer TRISTRAM POWELL. See page 25