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Free Thinking: Hanif Kureishi

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06/02/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Hanif Kureishi

Author Hanif Kureishi in extended interview with Philip Dodd.

An extended interview in which Philip Dodd is joined by novelist, screenwriter and dramatist Hanif Kureishi. He discusses subjects including immigration, sexuality and mortality.

Tonight on Free Thinking, Philip Dodd is in extended conversation with the novelist, screenwriter and dramatist Hanif Kureishi. Since his early success in the 1980s with My Beautiful Laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia, Kureishi has been the author of many novels and a series of films with the director Roger Michell. His latest novel, The Last Word, the story of an ageing Indian writer and his young biographer, returns to themes which have interested Kureishi since the start of his career - race, sex and desire, class and humour. He discusses with Philip why immigrants are seen as an eternal spectre Britain, changing views of sexuality and the shadow of mortality.

You can download this programme by searching under the Arts and Ideas podcasts for the broadcast date.

Producer: Fiona McLean

First broadcast 06/02/2014.

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