This week Andrew Marr is joined by Michael Frayn, Philip Bobbitt, Alexandra Fuller and Amit Chaudhuri.
After Copenhagen and Democracy, dramatist MICHAEL FRAYN has returned once again to history for his latest play, Afterlife. It tells the story of the Austrian theatre impresario Max Reinhardt, who pioneered the annual production of morality play Everyman at the Salzburg Festival but was then driven into exile by the Nazis. Afterlife is at the National Theatre from 3 June and his book of collected essays, Stage Directions: Writing on Theatre 1970 –2008, is published by Faber and Faber.
“Almost every widely held idea we currently entertain about 21st century terrorism and its relationship to the wars against terror is wrong and must be thoroughly rethought.” Or so claims political philosopher and former White House advisor PHILIP BOBBITT in his latest book, which argues that we must tackle our vulnerabilities and stockpile laws for times of emergency to ensure we don’t slip into living in states of terror ourselves. Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century is published by Allen Lane.
ALEXANDRA FULLER, the writer best known for her childhood memoir set in Rhodesia, Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight, is back with a story based in her adopted home of Wyoming. The Legend of Colton H Bryant is a factual account of a young man working on the oil and gas rigs, who falls victim to what she sees as a greedy rush to get oil at the cost of men’s health and even lives. The Legend of Colton H Bryant is published by Simon & Schuster.
Academic, novelist, poet and musician AMIT CHAUDHURI was born in Calcutta, grew up in Bombay and studied English Literature in London and Oxford. His latest book is a collection of essays in which he argues that thinking about Indian culture simply in relation to the British Empire does not do justice to the country’s 150-year-old story of self-division and creative tension. Clearing A Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture is published by Peter Lang Ltd.
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