Night Waves - Nadeem Aslam
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2013
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Samira Ahmed visits the British Museum to see its new show about Ice Age art. She is also joined by Nadeem Aslam - a Pakistani writer whose latest book, The Blind Man's Garden, offers a perspective on the last ten years of world history. Amanda Hopkinson reviews Pablo Larraín's latest film, No. And the novelist Rosie Thomas and biographer Matthew Dennison reflect on Rumer Godden, the author of Black Narcissus.
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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 |
| 0:21.2 | that it's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream |
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| 0:32.1 | This is a download from the BBC. For more information and our terms of use, go to BBC.co.uk slash radio three. |
| 0:40.4 | On the programme, Ice and the Imagination, the British Museum's new show claims to offer an insight into the arrival of the modern human mind in Ice Age Man 40,000 years ago. |
| 0:50.9 | Novelist Nadeem Islam on how the War on Terror inspired his novel, The Blind Man's |
| 0:55.6 | Garden, about the shame and loathing consuming modern Pakistan, and the unique literary voice |
| 1:01.3 | of Ruma Godin, formed and forever fascinated by the India of her youth, most famously in black |
| 1:07.1 | narcissus. I had to have the young general. |
| 1:13.5 | I couldn't turn out the holy man. |
| 1:17.3 | I couldn't stop the wind from blowing in the air from being as clear as crystal |
| 1:19.0 | and I couldn't hide the mountain. |
| 1:20.8 | I told you it was no place to put a nunnery. |
| 1:24.0 | Something in the atmosphere |
| 1:25.2 | that makes everything seem exaggerated. |
| 1:28.0 | Deborah Kerr is sister, Clodagh, in the atmosphere that makes everything seem exaggerated. Deborah Kerr is Sister Clodagh in the 1947 film. |
| 1:32.0 | We explore the power of Ruma Godden's prose as all her novels are set to be republished. |
| 1:37.1 | But first, we travel back in time 40,000 years to the dawn of the last Ice Age. |
| 1:42.6 | The British Museum's new exhibition on Ice Age Art is entitled The Arrival of the Modern Mind. |
| 1:48.5 | If we think of art from this age of hunter-gatherers, it's of cave paintings of hunts and bison. |
| 1:53.8 | The Europe of that age, which endured for 30,000 years, was a fierce and bleak environment for our ancestors. |
| 2:00.9 | But as this show reveals, the animals they hunted provided not just food and clothing, |
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