25 September 2004
Saturday 25 September 2004 22:15-23:00 (Radio 3)
Ian McMillan with the late night showcase of new writing, found language and hi-octane performance. Tonight Hanif Kureishi performs his musical dramatisation of his own short story Remember this Moment, Remember Us, and award winning eartoonist Peter Blegvad returns.
Programme Details
Hanif Kureishi, a writer who spreads himself across genres, from novels like 'The Buddha of Suburbia' and 'The Black Album', screenplays like 'My Beautiful Laundrette' and 'Sammy and Rosie Get Laid', and his latest book 'My Ear At His Heart (Faber), a memoir of his father, joins Ian McMillan to perform his short story 'Remember this Moment, Remember Us', with Soujatha Devaris accompanying on Cello.
Choman Hardi was born in Iraqi Kurdistan and has spent much of her life in exile, after her family fled to Iran . She's the author of three collections of poetry in her native Kurdish, and has just published her first collection in English, 'Life for Us'. She tells The Verb how she feels the history and identity of a language as she writes in it.
And the inimitable Verb audio-cartoonist Peter Blegvad explodes into the new season, blowing the cobwebs out of the attic. And adding a little mood lighting. As ever he defies description.
