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Saturday Review

Henry V, Elvis and Nixon, The Girls, Sculpture in the City, The Border

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Tom Sutcliffe and Ellah Allfrey, Linda Grant and Nikesh Shukla discuss the film Elvis & Nixon, a female-led Henry V, Polish TV drama The Border and The Girls by Emma Cline. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Ellah Allfrey
Interviewed Guest:
Linda Grant
Interviewed Guest:
Nikesh Shukla
Producer:
Harry Parker

Free Thinking

Sound Frontiers: Kamila Shamsie, Nikesh Shukla, Drugs in the German Reich, Board Games

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Rana Mitter presents. With Norman Ohler talking about Hitler's drug addiction, Nikesh Shukla and Kamila Shamsie on migration and a discussion about the metamorphosis of gaming. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Rana Mitter
Interviewed Guest:
Norman Ohler
Interviewed Guest:
Nikesh Shukla
Interviewed Guest:
Kamila Shamsie
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Howell
Interviewed Guest:
Marie Foulston

Open Book

Tom Campbell and Nikesh Shukla

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Alex Clark talks to Tom Campbell and Nikesh Shukla about fictionalising today's alienated young men, profiles African writer Amos Tutuola and takes a look at literary Sarajevo. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Alex Clark
Interviewed Guest:
Tom Campbell
Interviewed Guest:
Nikesh Shukla
Interviewed Guest:
Andrea Lesic

Book at Bedtime

The One Who Wrote Destiny

Episode 4: Neha

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Novel about family, fate and fortune by Nikesh Shukla. London, 2017. Neha responds to her diagnosis the only way she knows how. Show more

Book at Bedtime

The One Who Wrote Destiny

Episode 5: Neha

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Hilarious and moving new novel from Nikesh Shukla about three generations of one family. London, 2017. Neha maps out her family tree, trying to spot the pattern. Show more

Book at Bedtime

The One Who Wrote Destiny

Episode 7: Mukesh

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

A hilarious and moving new novel from Nikesh Shukla about three generations of one family. Edinburgh, present day. Mukesh goes to see Raks' Edinburgh show. Show more

Book at Bedtime

The One Who Wrote Destiny

Episode 8: Mukesh

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Hilarious and moving novel from Nikesh Shukla about three generations of one family. Kenya, present day. German tourist Ingrid meets Raks, who is grieving his sister. Show more

Book at Bedtime

The One Who Wrote Destiny

Episode 10: Ba

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

A hilarious and moving new novel from Nikesh Shukla about three generations of one family. Kenya, 1988. Ba waits for The One Who Writes Destiny. Show more

Book at Bedtime

The One Who Wrote Destiny

Episode 1: Mukesh

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Hilarious and moving novel from Nikesh Shukla about three generations of one family. Keighley, 1966. Mukesh arrives from Kenya to study, and first meets Nisha. Show more

Book at Bedtime

The One Who Wrote Destiny

Episode 2

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Keighley, 1966. Nisha recruits Mukesh for the Diwali show. Novel about family, fate and fortune by Nikesh Shukla. Show more

Book at Bedtime

The One Who Wrote Destiny

Episode 3: Mukesh

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Novel about family, fate and fortune by Nikesh Shukla. Keighley, 1966. Mukesh's turn in the Diwali show is interrupted. Show more

Book at Bedtime

The One Who Wrote Destiny

Episode 6: Laila

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

A hilarious and moving new novel from Nikesh Shukla about three generations of one family. Laila takes a strange acting gig, where she meets Raks. Show more

Book at Bedtime

The One Who Wrote Destiny

Episode 9: Ba

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

A hilarious and moving new novel from Nikesh Shukla about three generations of one family. Kenya, 1988. After their mother's death, Neha and Raks spend time with Ba. Show more

Border Crossing

Twenty-Something & The Revolutionary T-Shirt

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

A groundbreaking fictional dialogue between Ethiopia and Britain: Twenty Something Going Nowhere by Linda Yohannes and The Revolutionary T-Shirt by Nikesh Shukla. Show more

Contributors

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Book of the Week

The Good Immigrant

Namaste, by Nikesh Shukla

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Prompted by his frustration at how the word namaste has become 'a bastardised metaphor for spiritualism', Nikesh Shukla addresses his baby daughter on the importance of language. Show more

Front Row

BBC National Short Story Award

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Front Row announces the winners of the 2017 BBC National Short Story and Young Writers' Award live from the Radio Theatre. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Trollope
Interviewed Guest:
Eimear McBride
Interviewed Guest:
Jon McGregor
Interviewed Guest:
Sunjeev Sahota
Interviewed Guest:
Alice Levine
Interviewed Guest:
Nikesh Shukla
Interviewed Guest:
Holly Bourne
Producer:
Dymphna Flynn

Front Row

Incredible! The unstoppable rise of the comic book superhero

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

As superheroes, including Wonder Woman, take over the box office, we ask why we keep turning to comics for our heroes. With Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Stig Abell
Interviewed Guest:
Dave Gibbons
Interviewed Guest:
Adam Karenina Sherif
Interviewed Guest:
Louise Blain
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Brew
Interviewed Guest:
Nikesh Shukla
Interviewed Guest:
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
Interviewed Guest:
Kieron Gillen

Front Row

Henry Goodman as Lucien Freud, Isaac Julien, Lawrence Osborne, Nikesh Shukla, Sarah Shaffi

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Henry Goodman as Lucien Freud in Looking at Lucien, Nikesh Shukla and Sarah Shaffi on YA BAME writers, Lawrence Osborne's Beautiful Animals and Isaac Julien's queer icon. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Producer:
Hilary Dunn
Interviewed Guest:
Henry Goodman
Interviewed Guest:
Nikesh Shukla
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Shaffi
Interviewed Guest:
Lawrence Osborne
Interviewed Guest:
Isaac Julien