Hello, this is Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of BBC News and I'm here because I want

to talk to you about an event I'm doing with Intelligent Squared on the 2nd of November in London

and I'm going to be talking about the more than 30 years that I've spent reporting on major

events in the Middle East with my great friend and colleague over many many years, Justin Webb

and I'm sure we'll talk about a few other things as well, Justin and I started at the BBC on

the same day in 1984. So if you'd like to join us either in person or online, then visit

IntelligentSquared.com to find out more.

Hello and welcome to Intelligent Squared. I'm senior producer Connor Boyle.

Human beings have been telling stories for thousands of years, but what actually makes for

a good story. Authors have been trying to settle on the great principles of compelling writing

for as long as people have been writing. Yet as deeper anapura and time or sumru argue,

something has gone amiss in these manuals of the art of storytelling. They've tended to privilege

a Western perspective. Anapara and Sumru came to Intelligent Squared to talk about their new

anthology, letters to a writer of color, in which they ask us to critically examine the assumptions

that shaped the way we think fiction should be written. What might fiction look like if we

considered alternative ways of constructing narratives that were grounded in the experiences

of people of color. Together with two of the contributions to the collection, Charlene

Teo and Leila Aboulela, they explored one of the things we have a primal need for, stories

and lots of different kinds of them. This event was recorded on the 4th of April 2023.

Hello, I'm Teo More Sumru, author of the novel Other Names for Love and co-editor with Beeper

of letters to a writer of color. Beeper Anapara is a contributor to the collection as well as co-editor.

Formerly a journalist, she's now an author, and her debut novel, Gin Patrol on the Purple Line,

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