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Salman Rushdie

In a special edition, Andrew Marr talks to Salman Rushdie. For a decade the writer had to live under police protection, following the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses.

In a special edition of Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to Salman Rushdie. For a decade the writer was forced to live under police protection after being 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini following the publication of his novel, The Satanic Verses. He talks about living in hiding, under an alias, Joseph Anton, and how he gradually secured his freedom. Rushdie argues that we are 'story-telling animals', but more than twenty years since his controversial book was banned around the world, Andrew Marr asks what impact this has had on the stories we tell.

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43 minutes

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  • Mon 17 Sep 2012 09:00
  • Mon 17 Sep 2012 21:30

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