2 November 2005
Wednesday 2 November 2005 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
An extended interview with the author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker, about her life and work.
Programme details
On Night Waves Susan Hitch talks in an extended interview to the author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker, about her life and work and the connection between the two.
From losing an eye after her brother shot her when they were young, her illegal marriage to a white lawyer while growing up in America's segregated south, to learning to become an elder by participating in shamanistic rituals - each in different ways has influenced her writing.
And as her 30 th book is published in paperback Alice Walker talks to Susan about why, after Hurricane Katrina struck, she returned to the South to create a book altar amongst the stricken as they sheltered at the Astrodome.
Additional Information:
Alice Walker's Now is the Time to Open Your Heart has just been published in paperback by Phoenix
The musical of The Color Purple is opening on Broadway at the beginning of December
