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Last broadcast on Tue, 21 Apr 2009, 21:15 on BBC Radio 3.
Synopsis
Philip Dodd talks to Nandan Nilekani, an Indian computer technology guru who has been described as the 'Bill Gates of Bangalore', about his new vision for his nation and how it will shape the global future in the 21st century. He describes how many of the things that were once considered India's burdens - its huge population, its size, its young population - are now its economic advantages.
And Philip visits a re-creation at London's Tate Britain of illustrator, poet and thinker William Blake's first and only solo exhibition of 1809.
JG BALLARD
Philip Dodd and his guests, Will Self and Michael Moorcock discuss the life and work of the novelist JG Ballard who died at the weekend. They look back at a writer who was one of the most original and influential of all modern writers, whose work crossed from science fiction to mainstream literature.
JG Ballard’s Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: an Autobiography is published by HarperPerennial.
NANDAN NILEKANI
Nandan Nilekani, whose new book Imagining India is a businessman’s take on the history and culture of India, looks deep into the nation’s past to try to predict and understand its increasingly complex and extraordinary future.
Nandan Nilekani is one of the British Council’s 45 invited Indian writers taking part in India 09: Through Fresh Eyes.
Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation is published by Penguin Press.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
Also on the programme, Dr Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Department of History at Ohio State University and David Adjaye, the London-based architect, recently appointed to design the controversial National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. The mission of this landmark building is to tell the African American story - from African origins through slavery to contemporary politics. Adjaye and Jeffries will be explaining what such a building should symbolise and the plans for the design.
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Tue 21 Apr 200921:15
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