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Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books

Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

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Mariella Frostrup

Alison MacLeod

Ra Page

Balli Kaur Jaswal

Elan Mastai

Open Book: Balli Kaur Jaswal

26/03/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Balli Kaur Jaswal

Topical short stories and Balli Kaur Jaswal.

Literary magazine programme, presented by Mariella Frostrup.

Mariella Frostrup is joined by writer Alison MacLeod and publisher Ra Page to talk about short stories written in response to topical events. Alison includes stories inspired by the war in Iraq in 2003 and the death of Princess Diana amongst other news headlines in her latest collection, and Ra has brought together writers and historians for a new book of stories about protest. 
Also on the programme novelist Balli Kaur Jaswal discusses her latest, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, set amongst the Sikh community in Southall, and Elan Mastai reflects on the flights of apparent fantasy in twentieth century science fiction novels, which are now our day-to-day reality.

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