Salman Rushdie on BBC Radio 4, a year after death threat

Title

Salman Rushdie on BBC Radio 4, a year after death threat

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

27 Apr 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:01:39

Description

Philip Cottrell reports on an interview with novelist Salman Rushdie (includes excerpts) that was broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme a year after the death threat against him was announced in 1989. The interviewer on the Today programme is not heard.

Contributors

BBC; Salman Rushdie; BBC Radio 4; Philip Cottrell

Keywords

Books; Authors; Religion; Writers; Censorship; Novelists; Novels; Islam; Personal safety; Muslims; Salman Rushdie; The Satanic Verses; Controversial literature; Fatwa

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