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We're speaking to all the authors shortlisted for the Women鈥檚 Prize for Fiction 2021 and tonight it's the turn of Cherie Jones. Her novel, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, is set on and around the Barbados beaches of the 80s. Lala braids tourists鈥� hair in the idyllic setting but her home life is blighted by poverty, violence and lack of choices 鈥� and when she has a baby, a dangerous chain of events is set in motion. Cherie Jones talks about this debut novel that has been years in the writing.

Anish Kapoor wrote an article earlier this month decrying what he described as a 鈥渉ate-filled campaign to de-Islamify India鈥�via the destruction of a world-class monument.鈥� The monument he was referring to was India鈥檚 Parliament which he said was 鈥渢he greatest set of government buildings anywhere in the world.鈥� Professor Sarover Zaidi, from the Jindal School of Art and Architecture, and 91热爆 journalist Geeta Pandey, who is based in the 91热爆鈥檚 Delhi bureau, join Samira to discuss the controversial Central Vista Project which aims to redevelop India鈥檚 Parliamentary district.

In Tanika Gupta鈥檚 new play The Overseas Student the young man who comes from India to study Law is Mohandas Gandhi. While here he strove to fit in as an English gentleman, and was not politically active. But, the playwright tells Samira that his years living in Hammersmith and walking the streets of London shaped the man who became the great leader in India鈥檚 independence movement.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Julian May
Studio Engineer: Duncan Hannant

Main image: Esh Alladi in The Overseas Student at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.
Image credit: Helen Maybanks