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Book at Bedtime: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Indira Varma

Arundhati Roy

Richard Hamilton

Elizabeth Allard

Book at Bedtime: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: Episode 2: Departures

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

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Episode 2: Departures

Departures

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Anjum undertakes a journey that changes everything.

In Arundhati Roy's mesmerising novel, Anjum undertakes a journey that changes everything. Indira Varma reads.

In Arundhati Roy's mesmerising new novel, Anjum makes a discovery and finds love, but then she undertakes a journey to Gujarat that turns her world upside down. The reader is Indira Varma.

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is Arundhati Roy's first novel since her award winning debut The God of Small Things which was published in 1997. In her hotly anticipated new novel listeners will encounter a cast of colourful and unforgettable characters who take us to Old Delhi then to Kashmir and back again. 

Visit the Radio 4 website to find out how to listen to all fifteen episodes following the broadcast of episode 1 and to catch up with her Desert Island Discs and more.

Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

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By Arundhati Roy. A mesmerising journey from Old Delhi to Kashmir.

By Arundhati Roy. A mesmerising journey from Old Delhi to Kashmir and back in which the lives of a cast of vivid characters are intimately interwoven. Abridged by Richard Hamilton.

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