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Kathryn Bigelow and Kiran Desai

Kathryn Bigelow and Kiran Desai

Update: 2025-10-06
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Film director Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar for The Hurt Locker. She discusses her new film A House of Dynamite, which also looks at war, with Samira
Booker-winner Kiran Desai has been nominated for her new novel - 2 decades in the writing; The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.
Islam Issa and Ben Luke join Samira to discuss 'what are the humanities for and where are they headed'?
And we pay tribute to Dame Jilly Cooper who has died at the age of 88. We speak to writer and journalist Daisy Buchanan about the “Queen of the Bonkbuster”

Presenter Samira Ahmed

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Kathryn Bigelow and Kiran Desai

Kathryn Bigelow and Kiran Desai

BBC Radio 4