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Pulitzer Prize winner, Jhumpa Lahiri, on Italian

22/09/2019 GMT

The new face of climate change activism

BBC World Service - Weekend, The new face of climate change activism

The new activism on climate change; Jhumpa Lahiri on Italian fiction and language

A new generation of  activist firmly  takes charge in the fight against climate change.

Also in the programme: The Pulitzer Prize winning writer, Jhumpa Lahiri, on her love of the Italian language, literature and fiction.
 
Plus, Hong Kong braces for new protests.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Mary Dejevsky, a British columnist for the Independent newspaper and former foreign correspondent in Moscow, Paris and Washington, and Peter Tatchell, a human rights campaigner and director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation.

(Image: Schoolchildren marching through Cambridge, England, during a climate change protest. Credit: PA Wire)

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