Chess and Geopolitics, Jose Saramago, Scenes of Village Life, Corin Throsby
Presented by Anne McElvoy. With a debate on chess's role in geopolitics, a discussion about the last work of the late novelist Jose Saramago, and Amos Oz on his new novel.
Anne McElvoy discusses the role that chess has played in geo-politics, as a new documentary about Bobby Fischer is released in cinemas.
The Nobel Prize winning Portuguese novelist Jos茅 Saramago died last year, shortly after the controversial publication of his final book Cain, a retelling of the Old Testament which sees Saramago return to ground he last covered twenty years ago when his novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ shocked the religious world and saw him enter a self imposed exile from Portugal. Anne discusses his last work with Saramago's friend and translator Amanda Hopkinson.
Novelist Amos Oz talks about his new novel Scenes Of Village Life, Corin Throsby updates the status of Facebook and Michael Coveney reviews a new adapatation of In The Penal Colony.
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