Lebo Mashile, Maziar Bahari, Kate Tempest
Poet Lebo Mashile on post-apartheid writers, news from the Zanzibar music festival, Kate Tempest and folk musician Eliza Carthy, Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari and John Madden.
Street poet Thabiso Mohare talks to the performance poet Lebo Mashile about South Africa鈥檚 post-apartheid generation of writers.
There is news from the Zanzibar music festival, a report from the Lahore and Karachi Literature festivals and we hear from Iranian/American author Rabih Alameddine about the blue-haired, septuagenarian Beiruti bookworm who is the heroine of his latest book.
Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer tells how his villain refused to be killed, performance poet Kate Tempest and folk musician Eliza Carthy perform together at the 大象传媒鈥檚 6 Music Festival. The imprisoned Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari explains how his story became a film. Plus, film director John Madden discusses reuniting the Exotic Marigold Hotel gang 鈥� Dames Maggie and Judi with added Richard Gere.
(Photo: Lebo Mashire (c) Daniel Kogozi/Getty, Maziar Bahari (c) Tim P. Whitby/Getty, Kate Tempest (c) Jean-Francois Mosier/Getty)
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The Unquiet Ones: A History of Pakistan Cricket by Osman Samiuddin
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