The Namesake
Wednesday 28 March 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
The Indian-born director Mira Nair has made her name with a series of hit films on wildly different subjects: Punjab nuptials in Monsoon Wedding, a Hollywood re-make of Vanity Fair and an award winning documentary about India's booming 'Laughing Clubs'. Isabel Hilton explores Nair's latest film, The Namesake, which traces the story of a woman from Calcutta adapting to life in America, after an arranged marriage.
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Anniversary of The Falklands War
To mark the 25th anniversary of The Falklands War, Night Waves brings together two Argentine writers who have a special interest in the conflict.
Federico Guillermo Lorenz is a historian who has interviewed war veterans and Carlos Gamerro is a novelist who has written about the experience of veterans in his book Las Islas.
With presenter Isabel Hilton they discuss the impact of the conflict on Argentine society and culture, how the ex-soldiers have been treated since the war and how the islands are thought of today.
Dyslexia and Creativity
The Serpentine Gallery in London has launched an art and literacy project that explores the relationship between dyslexia and creativity and the links between language, learning and ordering systems.
The artist Abigail Reynolds has created a new pack of cards, for example, that offers people with dyslexia a new visual approach to game playing.
The project is called Neveroddoreven and on tonight's Night Waves - the Serpentine's director, Julia Peyton Jones (herself a dyslexic), and the head of Dyslexia Action, John Rack, discuss the particular visual and creative implications of the condition.
Serpentine Gallery website
Mira Nair
Isabel Hilton talks to Mira Nair, the film director who came to fame with Monsoon Wedding. Her latest film is called The Namesake and is an adaptation of Pulitzer prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri's debut novel about an Indian family bringing up their children in modern America.
Talking To The Dead
And reading from her latest collection "Talking to the Dead" is the award winning poet Elaine Feinstein - her new poems bravely and movingly evoke her dead husband.
Talking To The Dead by Elaine Feinstein is published by Carcanet Press.
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