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The Arts Hour: Renowned Novelist Dan Brown

Dan Brown

25/05/2013

Renowned Novelist Dan Brown

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Renowned Novelist Dan Brown

“Overpopulation is a key theme of the new novel.” – Dan Brown

Nikki Bedi hears an interview with bestselling American author Dan Brown of DaVinci Code fame, or should that be infamy? Does the prospect of his new novel Inferno send literary shivers of delight down your book spine? 

Alice Walker is a poet, feminist and activist. Her novel The Colour Purple brought her worldwide acclaim and if you haven't read the bestselling book the chances are you've seen the Oscar winning film. 

Yoko Ono will always be known as John Lennon's widow, but she's just had her tenth consecutive dance hit, and was recently in London preparing for the annual Meltdown Festival, a ten day feast of music, art, performance and film which she's curating. 

Charles Correa is India's greatest architect, he designed the British Council Building in Delhi and the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad and is an enemy of socially divisive housing.

Rolando Villazon meanwhile, is not only a huge star in the opera world he also seems to be Verdi's number one fan. He's currently on a 15-city tour to celebrate the composer's bicentennial. 

And if you are a fan of the universally acclaimed hit television series The Good Wife, you will be familiar with Scottish actor Alan Cumming's Eli Gold character. How then has he found the time to play Macbeth on Broadway? And he's not just playing the title role but every other role as well, in a reimagined version of Shakespeare's tragedy set, on this occasion, in a mental institution.

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