Beryl Bainbridge and the Booker Prize, Maxine Hong Kingston, Watteau, Life Goes On
Presented by Rana Mitter. With a discussion on Beryl Bainbridge and the Booker Prize, Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston, a Watteau exhibition and the film Life Goes On.
This Monday on Night Waves AN Wilson and Suzi Feay discuss Beryl Bainbridge and the Booker Prize. As the public votes on a special Beryl Booker for the author nominated five times but never crowned, Night Waves asks whether this is a celebration or a sign of guilt.
Maxine Hong Kingston's book 'The Woman Warrior' became an emblem of female empowerment in the 1970s. She talks to Rana Mitter about her new memoir 'I Love a Broad Margin to My Life.' Born in California, her mixed Chinese American identity led her back to the Chinese villages her mother and father had left in order to come to America, and to a life which has encompassed literature and political activism.
Sarah Kent reviews an unusual joint exhibition between the Royal Academy and the Wallace Collection. Jean Antoine Watteau is the artist in merit of such special treatment.
And Rana also talks to film maker Sangeeta Datta about Life Goes On. Inspired by King Lear, it's a tale of generational conflict in a middle class British Asian family.
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