Free Thinking: Shelina Janmohamed. Edward Ardizzone's Art. Jewish identity in fiction

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🗓️ 20 September 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Shelina Janmohamed on the modern Muslims whom she calls "Generation M". New novels by Amos Oz, Jonathan Safran Foer and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen explore aspects of Jewish identity and the history of Israel. Jonathan Freedland discusses these with Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. Plus Alan Powers and Christianna Ardizzone, the daughter of the artist who created the "Little Tim" series of books, talk to Anne McElvoy about his war art, ceramic figures and murals for ocean liners and his illustrations for both adult and children’s' books.

The new novel from Amos Oz is called Judas. A film A Tale of Love and Darkness directed by and starring Natalie Portman from his memoir is also being released in cinemas in the USA. Jonathan Safran Foer's latest novel is called Who Am I.

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's Waking Lions has just been published in paperback.

Jonathan Freedland is the author of Jacob’s Gift: A journey into the heart of belonging and of a series of thrillers published under his own name and the name Sam Bourne.

Shelina Janmohamed's book is called Generation M: Young Muslims Changing the World

Ardizzone: A Retrospective runs at the House of Illustration in London from 23 September 2016 – 15 January 2017. Alan Powers has co-curated the exhibition and is the author of an illustrated monograph Edward Ardizzone - Artist and Illustrator.

Producer: Eliane Glaser

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0:32.2	Welcome to the arts and ideas download from the free thinking team at the BBC.
0:37.2	And on tonight's program,
0:38.8	how does today's fiction take on Jewish identity
0:41.6	and the strains of modern-day Israel?
0:44.6	We rediscover the work of the artist, Edward Artizoni,
0:48.7	illustrator of Graham Green and H.E. Bates
0:50.8	are now the subject of a new exhibition.
0:53.6	You might know him via a character
0:55.3	called Little Tim. They stopped at a cafe and peered through the lighted windows. They were both
1:03.5	cold, wet, tired and very, very hungry. But Tim had no money to buy any food. Then Tim noticed through the glass a lady sitting
1:15.1	all by herself at a table. She was holding a handkerchief to her eyes as if she was crying.
1:23.2	Could it be his mother? Art historian Alan Powers, and you'll hear more from him later on.
1:30.6	But first, young Muslims and modernity.
1:33.4	It's a topic that's as complex as it's combustible, much theorized about, less fully understood.
1:39.8	Now a new book, Generation M, looks at what it means to be one of the 1.6 billion Muslims on the planet,
1:46.6	approximately two-thirds of them under 30.
1:49.6	It introduces us to the notion of the Mipster, or Muslim hipster,
1:53.9	with a fashion sense and iconography distinct from what many see as the baleful associations
1:59.0	with extreme political Islam.
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