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Free Thinking

Caryl Phillips, Stanley Wells, Ah, Wilderness!

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Presented by Matthew Sweet. With Caryl Phillips discussing his new novel, Stanley Wells on his new book about Shakespearean actors, and anti-imperialist protests in South Africa. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Stanley Wells
Interviewed Guest:
Lesley Lokko
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Duration: 1 hour, 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Adaptation of V S Naipaul's Pulitzer prize-winning novel about an Indian schoolteacher in Port of Spain, Trinidad, who takes up his father's trade as a masseur. Show more

Contributors

Ramlogan:
Om Puri
Mr. Stewart:
James Fox
Suruj Mooma:
Sakina Jaffrey
Headmaster:
Albert Laveau
Mrs. Cooper:
Grace Maharaj

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Open Book

Caryl Phillips on The Lost Child

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 award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips, whose new novel recalls Wuthering Heights. Plus Mark Ravenhill and Richard T Kelly on a reader's guide to Kafka. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Caryl Phillips

Drama on 4

Somewhere in England

Duration: 1 hour

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

Caryl Phillips dramatises his own novel Crossing the River, a story of love and race set in Yorkshire during the Second World War. Show more

Front Row

Fun Home, Portrayal of lesbians in drama, Caryl Phillips, Tate St Ives

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, literature, film and music. A stage musical adaption of Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel, and Fun Home reviewed. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Briony Hanson
Interviewed Guest:
Hannah Hauer-King
Interviewed Guest:
Caryl Phillips
Interviewed Guest:
Jean Rhys