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Jun 2017
44m 22s

Free Thinking - Arundhati Roy

Bbc Radio 4
About this episode

Arundhati Roy, the Man Booker prize winning author and campaigner is in conversation with Philip Dodd as she publishes her second novel 20 years after The God of Small Things.

Arundhati Roy's new novel is called The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. It is being read on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime.

Producer: Zahid Warley

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