Race in America: Selma, Joyce Carol Oates, Timberlake Wertenbaker

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Joyce Carol Oates new novel The Sacrifice depicts an act of racial violence which shocks a New Jersey town. Selma dramatises on film the life of Martin Luther King. Timberlake Wertenbaker's new play Jefferson's Garden puts on stage the founding of the American state. Anne McElvoy talks to Joyce Carol Oates and Timberlake Wertenbaker and is also joined by New Generation Thinker Joanna Cohen who studies American history, by Professor Kit Davis from SOAS, and, from the US, by the writer and commentator Rebecca Carroll. Selma directed by Ava DuVernay and starring David Oyelowo is on at cinemas around the country certificate 12A. Joyce Carol Oates new novel is called The Sacrifice. Jefferson's Garden by Timberlake Wertenbaker runs at Watford Palace Theatre from 5th to 21st February. Producer: Luke Mulhall.