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Bidisha

Bidisha talks to South Africa's most significant novelist, essayist and poet, Andre Brink, and discusses the musical Spring Awakening. The programme includes some strong language.

This programme includes some strong language.

Bidisha talks to South Africa's most significant novelist, essayist and poet Andre Brink. Opening in London this week and with a 'Broadway musical' treatment, the 19th century drama of teenage sexuality, Spring Awakening, is reviewed.

Plus Tom Perotta, author of the Abstinence Teacher, a new novel about evangelical America and sex education, discussing the American chastity movement with Bidisha and historian Anke Bernau.

The programme includes some strong language.

45 minutes

Last on

Wed 4 Feb 2009 21:15

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  • Wed 4 Feb 2009 21:15

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