Nawal el Saadawi, Biyi Bandele, Nitin Sawhney

As James Bond movie Spectre opens around the world this weekend we talk to director Sam Mendes. We invite our listeners to enter the incredible BBC World Service Radio Playwriting Competition, now in its 25th year. From Hong Kong reporter Linda Kennedy proposes a literary tour of the book festivals of the far east. Nigerian novelist Biyi Bandele tells us about his new Lagos film Fifty about the lives of four successful Nigerian females. The director of Cartel Land, about Mexico's border drug trade, talks about getting up close to a frightening and lawless world. Nawal el Saadawi, the Egyptian writer tells us her views on the veil. Multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer Nitin Sawhney talks about writing songs with strangers and meeting Mandela. And, British-Bangladeshi author Tahmima Anam and Bosnian-American writer Aleksandar Hemon discuss the literature of migration.

(Photo: L-R: Nawal El Saadawi (c) Getty Images, Biyi Bandele (c) Getty Images, Nitin-Sawhney (c) Getty Images)