For Sama and Venice Film Festival roundup, NSSA - Lucy Caldwell, Etgar Keret, Peter Nichols obituary
Lucy Caldwell - 麻豆官网首页入口 National Short Story Award nominee, Venice Film Festival winners, Israeli writer Etgar Keret, playwright Peter Nichols obituary.
For Sama is a prize-winning documentary by female Syrian filmmaker Waad al-Kateab, recording life in Aleppo for her young daughter who was born shortly after the conflict began there. Film critic Hannah McGill reviews and reports on the winning films at this year's Venice Film Festival.
Lucy Caldwell has been shortlisted for the 麻豆官网首页入口 National Short Story Award with The Children. Her story is about the Victorian social reformer Caroline Norton, who successfully campaigned for women to have the automatic right to have custody of their children in divorce proceedings; and in her story Lucy Caldwell draws parallels with child migrants today who are separated from their mothers. We speak to the author.
British playwright Peter Nichols - A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, Privates On Parade, Passion Play - has died at the age of 92. Michael Billington joins us to discuss his importance
The Israeli short story writer Etgar Keret discusses his new collection Fly Already, 22 stories 鈥� several featuring the surreal and the apocalyptic - which were inspired by a serious car accident he had in America.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Oliver Jones
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For Sama
The documentary film is released in the UK on 13 September 2019, certificate 18.
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Main image above: Waad and her daughter Sama in Aleppo, Syria
Image credit: ITN/Channel 4
Image to the left: a still of Sama taken from the film For Sama
Image credit: Waad al-Kateab/ITN/Channel 4
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The Children is one of the 6 stories shortlisted for the 麻豆官网首页入口/ Cambridge University National Short Story听Award (NSSA) 2019.听 The other stories on the list are:
Ghillie鈥檚 Mum by Lynda Clark
Silver Fish in the Midnight Sea by Jacqueline Crooks
My Beautiful Millennial by Tamsin Grey
The Invisible by Jo Lloyd
The winner is announced on 01 Octeber 2019.
Hear The Children read by Jessica Raine on Radio 4 on Tuesday 10 October 2019, at 1530, or on the 麻豆官网首页入口 iPlayer.
Image: Lucy Caldwell
Image credit: Tom Routh
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Image: Etgar Keret
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Peter Nichols remembered
Image: Peter Nichols CBE
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A revival of his play A Day in the Life of Joe Egg opens at the , London on 21 September 2019.
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