Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,04 Feb 2012,18 mins

04/02/2012

The Strand

Available for over a year

The Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer Guillermo Arriaga, creator of Babel and 21 Grams, talks about Heartbeat of the World - his new international collaborative film-making project The artist Sonia Boyce talks about her place in a new exhibition which explores how "British" art has been shaped by the migration of people, art and ideas from all over the world. Sri Lankan novelist Romesh Gunesekera talks about his new book, The Prisoner of Paradise which tells the story of a young English woman who travels to Mauritius in 1825, and is overwhelmed by the exotic island and the people there.

Programme Website
More episodes