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Hanif Kureishi

An extended interview in which Philip Dodd is joined by novelist, screenwriter and dramatist Hanif Kureishi. He discusses subjects including immigration, sexuality and mortality.

Tonight on Free Thinking, Philip Dodd is in extended conversation with the novelist, screenwriter and dramatist Hanif Kureishi. Since his early success in the 1980s with My Beautiful Laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia, Kureishi has been the author of many novels and a series of films with the director Roger Michell. His latest novel, The Last Word, the story of an ageing Indian writer and his young biographer, returns to themes which have interested Kureishi since the start of his career - race, sex and desire, class and humour. He discusses with Philip why immigrants are seen as an eternal spectre Britain, changing views of sexuality and the shadow of mortality.

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Producer: Fiona McLean

First broadcast 06/02/2014.

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45 minutes

The Last Word

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Image: Photocredit: Kier Kureishi.

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest Hanif Kureishi
Producer Fiona McLean

Broadcasts

  • Thu 6 Feb 2014 22:00
  • Wed 11 Mar 2015 22:00

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