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Reimagining the City

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Writers and musicians offer guides to cities with which we think we are already familiar.

Writers and musicians present alternative guides to cities with which we think we are already familiar.

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Reimagining the City: Series 1

Reimagining the City: Series 1: Episode 3: Istanbul

Istanbul

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Episode 3: Istanbul

Series 1

BBC Radio 4 - Reimagining the City, Series 1, Istanbul

Writer Elif Shafak invites us to reimagine Istanbul, a city she has loved all her life.

Writer Elif Shafak takes us to the Istanbul she has lived in and loved for all her adult life and invites us to reimagine the city.

In her twenties, the writer Elif Shafak moved to Istanbul. "The city called me," she says. She moved there, knowing no-one, hoping to become a full time writer. She found her subject matter.

"In Istanbul, you understand, perhaps not intellectually but intuitively, that East and West are ultimately imaginary ideas, ones that can be de-imagined and re-imagined."

Elif offers us her vision of Istanbul; a city that's never quiet, always moving and wrestling with itself.


Produced by Rachel Hooper
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Writers and musicians offer an alternative guide to several cities

Writers and musicians offer an alternative guide to several cities with which we think we are already familiar

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