Asne Seierstad
Monday 3 March 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Rana Mitter talks to Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad about her new book The Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya, the result of her own personal and often dangerous investigations into the ongoing conflict in Chechnya.
The Other Boleyn Girl
Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson in The Other Boleyn Girl.
Playlist
Rana Mitter talks to two of today's leading women of letters.
Susan Faludi
The Pullizer prize winning American journalist Susan Faludi comes to talk about the aftermath of 9/11 for the women of America, asking if the attacks re-invigorated a climate in America that is hostile to Women - presenting them as fragile and weak and best suited to supportive roles to the men who protect them - a tradition going back to the days of the frontier.
The Terror Dream: What 9/11 Revealed About America is published by Atlantic Books.
Asne Seierstad
Rana also talks to the Norwegian investigative journalist and author Asne Seierstad about the ordinary people whose lives were mangled by the war in Chechnya, an account produced after she went to live with an extraordinary family in Grozny who offer their own perspective on the conflict.
The Angel of Grozny is published by Virago.
Shell guides to Britain
We take a trip down some of the Nation's most beautiful B roads to Cockfosters and a new exhibition of the highly collectable Shell guides to Britain.
The Shell Guides: Surrealism, Modernism, Tourism is at the Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA), Middlesex University, Cockfosters, London until November 2nd 2008.
Reinterpreting the Tudors
And as the Tudors return to the multiplex in The Other Boleyn Girl we hear how the scholars are radically redefining and refreshing the period of history that's never far from our screens. Helen Hackett and Eric Ives join Rana in the studio.
The Other Boleyn Girl is released on Friday certificate 12A.
