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Violinist Kyung Wha Chung, Murray Lachlan Young, Hisham Matar on Clash

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Samira Ahmed talks to the violinist Kyung Wha Chung, who after five years recovering from a finger injury is now performing the complete Bach Partitas and Sonatas.

Murray Lachlan Young, the first poet to receive a million pound contract from EMI, discusses his collection How Freakin' Zeitgeist Are You?

Hisham Matar, who recently won the Pulitzer Prize, and Briony Hanson review the Egyptian film Clash, which is set entirely in a police truck in Cairo in 2013.

Michael Pennington pays tribute to the late theatre director Michael Bogdanov, who founded the English Shakespeare Company.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Timothy Prosser. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Kyung Wha Chung
Interviewed Guest:
Murray Lachlan Young
Interviewed Guest:
Hisham Matar
Interviewed Guest:
Briony Hanson
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Pennington

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