25 February 2006
Saturday 25 February 2006 21:55-22:40 (Radio 3)
Booker prize winner DBC Pierre talks to Ian McMillan. Also featuring performance poet Shamshad Khan and children's author Morris Gleitzman.
Programme Details
DBC Pierre is one of the literary world's shooting stars. In 2003 he won the Booker for his first novel Vernon God Little, and marked his debut as one of the most startling in the 21st century. And with his second novel, Ludmilla's Broken English, he is destined to reach new heights too. The book encompasses globalisation, the failings of eastern Europe, twins conjoined at the hip until age 33, and a tractor at the centre of Ludmilla's family life. DBC talks to Ian McMillan about his love of words, which he reveres above all things in the world.
Also on the programme, after JK Rowling, one of the world's leading writers for children - Morris Gleitzman. He reveals why he thinks no subjects are taboo for children in the 21 st century, and also his thinking behind his latest novel, Once, which looks at the Holocaust from a child's point of view.
Ken Campbell asks us to twist our minds and imagination into contortions when he reveals what the fine art of diddling, Newfoundland and his Latin Master have in common.
And the performance poet Shamshad Khan puts a pot from Manchester Museum centre stage, revealing how it inspired her in verse and inspired her to draw on the mushaira tradition of Southern India.
That's The Verb, at 21.55 here on BBC Radio 3.
Additional Information:
Ludmila's Broken English and Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre are published by Faber
Once by Morris Gleitzman is published by Penguin
Producer: Ariane Koek
