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A Legend Before Slumdog
1.30pm Sunday 1st August BBC Radio 4
Navid Akhtar looks at the role that spirituality and technology have played in the career of the Indian composer A.R. Rahman, now world-famous for his Oscar-winning soundtrack for Slumdog Millionaire but actually a huge name in India long before that, producing chart-topping music for Bollywood movies, advertising jingles and even an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Character Assassins
11.30am Tuesday 14 September BBC Radio 4
From Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot to Inspector Morse and Rebus, is getting rid of your leading character an act of tough love, or one of extreme jealousy?
Fiona Lindsay embarks on a forensic cross-examination of popular writers to discover why they choose to inflict mortality on their creations. Not so much a whodunnit, as why have they done it?
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