Night Waves - Khaled Hosseini
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2013
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Former physician and best-selling author, Khaled Hosseini talks to Rana Mitter about his latest novel - And the Mountains Echoed - his charity relief work in Afghanistan, and his thoughts on writing a sympathetic Taliban character. As the Man Booker International Prize is announced, Night Waves is first to speak to the winner and discuss the body of their work. What is the way forward for psychiatry? Rana is joined by Lucy Johnstone, Tom Burns and Matthew Smith to discuss. And a first night review by Susannah Clapp of the winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Digraced.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that at some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right? |
| 0:23.4 | It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream. |
| 0:28.9 | Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.1 | This is a download from the BBC. |
| 0:34.1 | For more information and our terms of use, go to BBC.co.uk slash radio three. |
| 0:40.9 | And tonight, we'll announce the winner of one of the world's biggest literary awards, |
| 0:45.2 | the Man Booker International Prize. |
| 0:47.5 | And we'll have the very first interview with the winner, live. |
| 0:51.1 | As the key medical guide to mental illness goes into its fifth edition, we'll ask, |
| 0:56.1 | what does the future hold for psychiatry and should it learn from psychology? And if you need |
| 1:01.0 | a reminder of the difference between the two, well, keep listening. And questions of nationality |
| 1:06.4 | and loyalty blaze onto the stage. It will never cease to amaze me. |
| 1:12.8 | My parents moved to this country with my sister. |
| 1:14.7 | Never made her a citizen. |
| 1:16.1 | When she's old enough, they send her back, marry her off in Pakistan. |
| 1:19.8 | She has kids with the guy, and lo and behold, he wants to move here. |
| 1:24.7 | And what do they do? |
| 1:26.0 | Spent all their spare time at an Islamic center. His heart's in the |
| 1:29.3 | right place, Amir. Okay, I know. Is yours? What is that supposed to mean? Why would you have worked |
| 1:34.1 | in the public defenders if you didn't care about justice? Public defenders have the hottest |
| 1:38.3 | girlfriend. The New York production of Ayad Ahtar's disgraced won this year's Pulitzer Prize for drama. |
| 1:45.1 | As it opens in London, we'll have a first-night verdict on this controversial play about identity and Islam. |
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