Synopsis
The writer Kamila Shamsie meets the choreographer Akram Khan.
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BBC National Short Story Award | 2023 : Churail by Kamila Shamsie
Zoha Rahman reads the fifth story in this year's BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University.
Open Book | Mary Renault's Greek Myths
Octavia is joined by classicist Bettany Hughes, who has written the introduction for the latest edition of The King Must Die, writer Kamila Shamsie, whose retelling of Antigone, the novel Home Fire, won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2018, and the academic and novelist Okechukwu Nzelu to discuss the qualities and enduring appeal of Mary Renualt's writing.