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Angela Carter Celebration, Daljit Nagra, Mark Ravenhill and Martin Rowson, Mick Jackson

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Duration: 45 minutes

This week Marina Warner and Christopher Frayling join Ian McMillan to mark the twentieth anniversary of Angela Carter's death with a celebration of her writing. The actress Sian Thomas brings Carter's incredible stories to life.

Poet Daljit Nagra shares a very first look at his new work in progress, a verse retelling of the Hindu epic The Ramayana which recounts Rama's battles with the demon Ravanna and his romance with Sita. Daljit's new version of the story is written in a bolshy, modern, non-standard English with a streak of the lyrical that pulls the ancient tale into the twenty first century.

Dramatist and playwright in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company Mark Ravenhill and political cartoonist Martin Rowson join Ian to celebrate satire and push against the tyranny of good taste as they share their versions of literary classics in Limerick form.

And Booker shortlisted novelist Mick Jackson, author of The Underground Man and The Widow's Tale, has written a new short story for The Verb inspired by his residence at the Science Museum.

Producer: Allegra McIlroy.

  • ANGELA CARTER

    Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber short stories, Nights at The Circus and Wise Children are all published by Virago. Her selection of fairy tales from around the world, Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales, is published by Virago.

    A Card from Angela Carter by Susannah Clapp is a personal memoir of the novelist by her close friend and literary executor. It’s published by Bloomsbury.

    Stranger Magic by Marina Warner is published by Chatto and Windus, and From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner is published by Vintage.

  • DALJIT NAGRA

    Daljit Nagra’s poetry collections Look We Have Coming to Dover and Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! Are both published by Faber. His new version of The Ramayana will be published by Faber in 2013.

  • LIMERICKS

    Mark Ravenhill is playwright in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Mark has tweeted some of his limericks of literary classics @markravenhill.

    Martin Rowson is political cartoonist for the Guardian and writes A History of Literature in the Independent on Sunday. His collection of Limericks, The Limerickiad Volume 1 is published by Smokestack Books.

  • MICK JACKSON

    Mick Jackson is currently writer in residence at The Science Museum. His novels The Underground Man and The Widow’s Tale are published by Faber.

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