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Start the Week

Mohsin Hamid on leaving home

Duration: 43 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Kirsty Wark discusses migration and expanding borders with novelist Mohsin Hamid, lawyer Carol Bohmer, theatre director Robert Hastie and former Portuguese minister Bruno Macaes. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Wark
Interviewed Guest:
Mohsin Hamid
Interviewed Guest:
Carol Bohmer
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Hastie
Interviewed Guest:
Bruno Macaes
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Open Book

Mohsin Hamid, North Korean short stories

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Mariella Frostrup talks to acclaimed novelist Mohsin Hamid, whose new book, Exit West, takes on hugely urgent themes of migration and the refugee crisis. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Mohsin Hamid
Interviewed Guest:
Max Porter

Book at Bedtime

Exit West

Episode 1

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Romance blossoms for students Nadia and Saeed, but their world is about to be turned upside down. Nikesh Patel reads Mohsin Hamid's Man Booker shortlisted novel about displacement. Show more

Book at Bedtime

Exit West

Episode 4

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Two ordinary young people fall in love in a world turned upside down. As their journey continues, Saeed and Nadia find themselves feeling violence once again. Show more

Book at Bedtime

Exit West

Episode 2

Duration: 15 minutes

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

As the battle for their city intensifies, and fearing for Nadia's safety, Saeed makes a proposal. Nikesh Patel reads Mohsin Hamid's Man Booker shortlisted novel about displacement. Show more

Book at Bedtime

Exit West

Episode 5

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Nadia and Saeed are two ordinary young people falling in love in a world turned upside down. The couple find peace in an unexpected place. Show more

Book of the Week

Discontent and Its Civilizations

Episode 1

Duration: 15 minutes

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

4 Extra Debut. Mohsin Hamid’s fractured youth in Pakistan and USA and the creation of language, art and identity. Read by Sanjeev Baskhar. Show more

Book of the Week

Discontent and Its Civilizations

Episode 3

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Back in Lahore, Hamid gets to grip with a writer’s solitary life, developing his craft and his fitness. Read by Sanjeev Baskhar. Show more

Book of the Week

Discontent and Its Civilizations

Episode 4

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Islamaphobia both pre and post 9/11, and the fearsome consequences of terrorism on Pakistan. Read by Sanjeev Baskhar. Show more

Book of the Week

Discontent and Its Civilizations

Episode 5

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Hamid’s country's history and progress on the occasions of Pakistan's 60th and 65th birthdays. Read by Sanjeev Baskhar. Show more

Book of the Week

Discontent and Its Civilizations

Episode 2

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Hamid relocates to London for his career and finds love in the city, but his birth city is calling. Read by Sanjeev Baskhar. Show more

Front Row

Kazuo Ishiguro

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Kazuo Ishiguro has just been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. From Stockholm, he talks to John Wilson about becoming a Nobel Laureate. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Kazuo Ishiguro
Interviewed Guest:
Robert McCrum
Interviewed Guest:
Mohsin Hamid
Interviewed Guest:
Stacey Kent

Free Thinking

Partition: Novelists' views of India and Pakistan now

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Neel Mukherjee, Preti Taneja, Mohsin Hamid and Nadeem Aslam talk borders and migration with Anne McElvoy, plus Gurindher Chadha on her film about Partition, Viceroy's House. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
Gurinder Chadha
Interviewed Guest:
Neel Mukherjee
Interviewed Guest:
Preti Taneja
Interviewed Guest:
Mohsin Hamid
Interviewed Guest:
Nadeem Aslam

Free Thinking

Partition, Mohsin Hamid, Gurinder Chadha

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Presented by Anne McElvoy. With author Mohsin Hamid talking about migration, Mohsin Hamid, Preti Taneja and Sam Goodman discussing India's Partition, and director Gurinder Chadha. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Mohsin Hamid
Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
Preti Taneja
Interviewed Guest:
Sam Goodman
Interviewed Guest:
Gurinder Chadha