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Mina Anwar and Les Dennis discuss their new production of Spring and Port Wine at the Bolton Octagon. They explain why the 1960s classic play about a family in Bolton, and tensions between the generations, still has resonance today.

Writer Tania Branigan talks about her new book Red Memory. Based on her research as a journalist in China, it tells the story of the Cultural Revolution through the memories of individuals including a composer, an artist and a man who denounced his own mother.

It鈥檚 nearly 40 years since Barbra Streisand鈥檚 film Yentl was released. Based on a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, it follows a young woman who lives as a man so that she can study Jewish scripture. Kerry Shale, who had a part in Streisand鈥檚 film, discusses returning to Singer鈥檚 story to adapt it for a new Radio 4 drama, Yentl the Yeshiva Boy.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Olivia Skinner

Image Credit: Pamela Raith Photography