Free Thinking - Mexico in Words
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
As Mexico takes centre stage at London's Book Fair Matthew Sweet speaks to two of the country's award-winning writers - Valeria Luiselli and Francisco Goldman. Playwright Simon Stephens talks about transplanting Carmen into a modern urban idiom. And Christopher Doyle: No Glass Twice as Big as It Needs to Be - the cinematographer and film director has his first solo art show in Europe opening at London Gallery Rossi & Rossi.
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| 0:46.8 | there's the prolific British playwright Simon Stevens, Provenants Stockport, 1971, |
| 0:52.1 | and Christopher Doyle, the Can Grand Grand Prix-winning cinematographer, Australian, |
| 0:56.9 | 1952, but with some striking Chinese editions. And I'd also like to draw your attention to this |
| 1:02.4 | very fine pair of novelists, Francisco Goldman and Valeria, Louiselli, both bearing the mark of Mexico. |
| 1:09.3 | With Goldman comes his new book, a moving memoir set amid the traffic of Mexico. With Goldman comes his new book, |
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