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Hello, today we explore fictional lives of the painters Diego Velasquez and Hans Holbein

and consider two very different stories of black identity.

A little later we'll be discussing the joys and challenges of bringing Chinoa Achebe's epoch to finding things fall apart alive on the stage.

But before that, another work that references the legacy of empire but is set in contemporary London

and explores the domestic prism of two couples of mixed heritage.

Ordinary People is the third novel from Diana Evans,

a graduate of UEA's famed creative writing course

and winner of the Orange Award for new writers.

Her past career as a dancer

and her experience as a surviving twin

have informed her previous two novels,

26A and The Wonder. Now she turns her eye to two

30-something couples at a moment of reckoning. Melissa and Michael are raising two young children in

South London in an oppressive Victorian terrace, while their friends, Stephanie and Damien

are holed up in the suburbs drifting apart.

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