Imagining The New Truth

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Daniel Kehlmann

20170103

20170104 (R4)

The highly-acclaimed novelist and playwright Daniel Kehlmann has spent the last year in the US and his native Germany, where the fast-changing currents of political and social change have inspired and shaped his writing. The fall-out from mass migration, the appeal of the far-right and the fear of terrorist attack all fuel his imagination and are reflected in his latest work. Kehlmann talks to us on a winter's day in New York about truth, paranoia and his response to a world in flux.

Producer: Julia Johnson.

Leading artists on how they process this turbulent era through their work: Daniel Kehlmann

Leading international artists on how they process the turbulent world through their work.

Dayanita Singh

20170104

20170105 (R4)

The images created by the Indian photographer and book-maker Dayanita Singh tell powerful stories of a fast-changing world. Through the portable museums she creates, she opens up lost worlds of family life, workplaces battered by globalisation and abandoned paper archives made obsolete by technological change. The textures of a changing material world fire Singh's imagination and she finds beauty in both people and the objects all around her. Reflecting on the changes transforming India, including the government of Narendra Modi and the withdrawal of vast quantities of Indian banknotes from circulation, Singh talks to us about her vision of a new world.

Producer: Julia Johnson.

Leading international artists on how they process the turbulent world through their work.

Ece Temelkuran

20170102

20170103 (R4)

Ece Temelkuran is a Turkish poet, novelist and journalist whose outspoken opinions about the governance of her native land has made it expedient for her to find safe haven in the Croatian capital Zagreb. In the quiet of her own flat and in the cold of the winter streets of a city she finds increasingly sympathetic, she ponders the new world order and its fleeting shadows of half-truths, extremism and rapid erosion of old norms.

She talks about the pressures on her to become either an heroic voice or a silent witness and why that dichotomy is demeaning to her. Over a coffee and a cigarette she wrestles with the writer's role and whether it's time to reflect the context of her time or to continue to try and establish splashes of beauty in what her experience of the English language has made her describe as 'interesting' times.

Producer: Tom Alban.

The Turkish poet and journalist seeks to chronicle and describe our fast-changing world.

Leading international artists on how they process the turbulent world through their work.

Oksana Zabuzhko

20170106

20170107 (R4)

Oksana Zabuzkho writes and works in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. The central streets of the city and the now famous Maidan square have seen their share of protest, violence and upheaval in recent years. Walking those streets that echoed with demonstrations, Oksana reflects on what happened back then and the subsequent state of war with Ukraine's northern neighbour Russia. But she sees the Truth of that conflict, and the broader global situation, not just in the gunshots now ringing out sporadically in the East of the country, but in the information warfare in which writers feel far more directly involved.

Oksana reads a brief extract from her novel 'The Museum of Abandoned Secrets'.

Producer: Tom Alban.

The Ukrainian author describes our fast-changing world and its impact on her work.

Leading international artists on how they process the turbulent world through their work.

Tania Bruguera

20170105

20170106 (R4)

Tania Bruguera is a performance and installation artist who uses art not just to comment on society but to change it. Working and exhibiting in her native Cuba, the US and around the world, she tells us about her artistic practice, the death of Fidel Castro and her response to the seismic changes reshaping her homeland and the wider world.

Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera on 'artivism' in a changing world.

Leading international artists on how they process the turbulent world through their work.

Episodes

Title	First Broadcast	Repeated	Comments
Daniel Kehlmann	20170103	20170104 (R4)	The highly-acclaimed novelist and playwright Daniel Kehlmann has spent the last year in the US and his native Germany, where the fast-changing currents of political and social change have inspired and shaped his writing. The fall-out from mass migration, the appeal of the far-right and the fear of terrorist attack all fuel his imagination and are reflected in his latest work. Kehlmann talks to us on a winter's day in New York about truth, paranoia and his response to a world in flux. Producer: Julia Johnson. Leading artists on how they process this turbulent era through their work: Daniel Kehlmann Leading international artists on how they process the turbulent world through their work.
Dayanita Singh	20170104	20170105 (R4)	The images created by the Indian photographer and book-maker Dayanita Singh tell powerful stories of a fast-changing world. Through the portable museums she creates, she opens up lost worlds of family life, workplaces battered by globalisation and abandoned paper archives made obsolete by technological change. The textures of a changing material world fire Singh's imagination and she finds beauty in both people and the objects all around her. Reflecting on the changes transforming India, including the government of Narendra Modi and the withdrawal of vast quantities of Indian banknotes from circulation, Singh talks to us about her vision of a new world. Producer: Julia Johnson. Leading international artists on how they process the turbulent world through their work.
Ece Temelkuran	20170102	20170103 (R4)	Ece Temelkuran is a Turkish poet, novelist and journalist whose outspoken opinions about the governance of her native land has made it expedient for her to find safe haven in the Croatian capital Zagreb. In the quiet of her own flat and in the cold of the winter streets of a city she finds increasingly sympathetic, she ponders the new world order and its fleeting shadows of half-truths, extremism and rapid erosion of old norms. She talks about the pressures on her to become either an heroic voice or a silent witness and why that dichotomy is demeaning to her. Over a coffee and a cigarette she wrestles with the writer's role and whether it's time to reflect the context of her time or to continue to try and establish splashes of beauty in what her experience of the English language has made her describe as 'interesting' times. Producer: Tom Alban. The Turkish poet and journalist seeks to chronicle and describe our fast-changing world. Leading international artists on how they process the turbulent world through their work.
Oksana Zabuzhko	20170106	20170107 (R4)	Oksana Zabuzkho writes and works in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. The central streets of the city and the now famous Maidan square have seen their share of protest, violence and upheaval in recent years. Walking those streets that echoed with demonstrations, Oksana reflects on what happened back then and the subsequent state of war with Ukraine's northern neighbour Russia. But she sees the Truth of that conflict, and the broader global situation, not just in the gunshots now ringing out sporadically in the East of the country, but in the information warfare in which writers feel far more directly involved. Oksana reads a brief extract from her novel 'The Museum of Abandoned Secrets'. Producer: Tom Alban. The Ukrainian author describes our fast-changing world and its impact on her work. Leading international artists on how they process the turbulent world through their work.
Tania Bruguera	20170105	20170106 (R4)	Tania Bruguera is a performance and installation artist who uses art not just to comment on society but to change it. Working and exhibiting in her native Cuba, the US and around the world, she tells us about her artistic practice, the death of Fidel Castro and her response to the seismic changes reshaping her homeland and the wider world. Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera on 'artivism' in a changing world. Leading international artists on how they process the turbulent world through their work.