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Radio 3,17 Jun 2015,45 mins,
Jonathan Sacks, Milan Kundera Novel, Stephen Adly Guirgis Play
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks talks to Philip Dodd about confronting religious violence. Milan Kundera has written his first novel for 12 years. Geoff Dyer has been reading it. And critic Sarah Crompton reports on the first night at the National Theatre of the play from this year's Pulitzer prize-winning dramatist Stephen Adly Guirgis. Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence by Rabbi Sacks is out now. The Mother---------- With The Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis gained 6 Tony nominations on Broadway. It runs in rep at the National Theatre until mid August. Milan Kundera's novel is called The Festival of Insignificance.
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