Sarah Perry, The Cry, Cultural First Aid
Author Sarah Perry discusses Melmoth, her eagerly awaited follow-up to The Essex Serpent. Plus Emma Bullimore reviews new 大象传媒 drama The Cry, and what is 'cultural first aid'?
Sarah Perry discusses Melmoth, her eagerly awaited novel after her award-winning The Essex Serpent. Her new novel is about an English translator who, hiding from her past in Prague, uncovers the legend of Melmoth 鈥� a woman in black who wanders the world bearing witness to humanity鈥檚 worst crimes.
大象传媒1鈥檚 new Sunday night drama is a television adaptation of Helen Fitzgerald鈥檚 novel The Cry, in which the abduction of a baby leads to the psychological disintegration of a young woman. Emma Bullimore reviews The Cry and considers why child abduction or disappearance is such a recurring theme in contemporary television drama, with series such as Missing, Kiri and Save Me.
What is 鈥榗ultural first aid鈥�? And why is it so important to save heritage in the face of natural disaster, fire, flood and conflict emergencies? Biovanni Boccardi of UNESCO alongside Aparna Tandon and Jose Luiz Pedersoli from ICCROM join Samira to discuss, and also to look at how cultural first aid is being used to help the National Museum of Brazil after the recent devastating fire.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Kate Bullivant
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Sarah Perry
Main image (above): Sarah Perry
Photo credit: Jamie Drew
's new book, Melmoth, is published 2 October.
Charles Aznavour
The Cry
Photo: Jenna Coleman and Ewen Leslie as Joanna and Alistair in The Cry
Photo credit: Synchronicity Films Ltd/Lachlan Moore
The Cry continues on 大象传媒 on聽Sunday at 9pm.
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