BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Programme that talks to artists, scientists and thinkers about what they believe and why

Programme that talks to artists, scientists and thinkers and asks them about what they believe and why

Belief: Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak

27/12/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Belief, Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak talks to Joan Bakewell about the influence of Sufism on her writing.

Turkey's best-selling female novelist, Elif Shafak, talks to Joan Bakewell about the influence of Sufism on her writing.

Elif Shafak is more than a little in love with Rumi, the Sufi mystic poet who features in her novel "The Forty Rules of Love." In this programme Turkey's best-selling woman novelist tells Joan Bakewell about her growing attachment to this figure, and about the connections she sees between the role of a 13th century mystic philosopher and herself as a 21st century writer.

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