 Midnight's Children: Salman Rushdie in conversation 

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Salman Rushdie talks to radio director Emma Harding about his novel Midnight's Children.

4 Extra Debut. Salman Rushdie talks to director Emma Harding about his novel, Midnight's Children, and all it represents. From 2017.

Salman Rushdie talks to radio drama director Emma Harding about his multi-award winning novel - Midnight's Children. 

They discuss the initial impetus for the novel and the mirroring of his own life as a child born 70 years ago in 1947, the year of India's Partition.  

Rushdie also talks about the break-through moment of finding Saleem's voice, his attempt to represent the multiplicity of India in a single novel, and his pessimism about the direction of travel of India and Pakistan today.

Producer:  Emma Harding  

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2017.

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