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"I wanted to concentrate on the plight of the worker who must leave his rural area to come to the city of gold… these people end up having to die in the mines, which to me looks to me as if the earth is forever hungry..." Maishe Maponya talks about his play set in Soweto, The Hungry Earth, that opens in London. Lisa Alther talks about her second novel, Original Sins, about growing up in 1960s America. Plus, a review of the Cannes Film Festival where the films included Chariots of Fire, Excalibur, Possession, Heaven's Gate, Looks and Smiles, Man of Iron, Mephisto.
Presented by Natalie Wheen.