Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera. Jarman's Garden
From visions of childhood to their daily writing routine, authors Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera compare notes. Derek Jarman's garden has been saved but what of other gay spaces?
Authors Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera are Fellows of the Royal Literature Society who signed the Register on the same day. In the first of a series of conversations with writers who would have been sharing a stage at a literary festival, they talk to Shahidha Bari.
Plus a postcard from 2020 New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the saving of Derek Jarman鈥檚 house and garden - also the subject of Sunday鈥檚 Words and Music which you can find on 91热爆 Sounds and here /programmes/m000jdz0
The Norfolk and Norwich Festival which would have featured the meeting of Romesh and Anne has more author interviews on its website https://nnfestival.org.uk/
Romesh Gunesekera's latest book is Suncatcher. You can hear him discussing it in more detail with William Dalrymple and Susheila Nasta in an episode of Free Thinking called The Shadow of Empire and Colonialism /programmes/m000c0f7
Anne Fine's books include Goggle Eyes, The Granny Project, The Jamie Angus Stories, The Tulip Touch, Battle of Wills and her latest Blood Family. You can hear her discussing family life along with Tobias Jones, Tom Shakespeare and Professor Sarah Cunningham Burley in a Free Thinking Festival discussion called The Family is Dead, Long Live the Family /programmes/b06pswsk
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the 91热爆 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year who turn their research into radio. You can find a series of Essays and postcards from them in playlists on the Free Thinking programme website /programmes/b0144txn
Producer: Robyn Read
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New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester reflects on saving Jarman鈥檚 house and garden.
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- Tue 26 May 2020 22:0091热爆 Radio 3
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