Lionel Shriver
Robert McCrum meets Lionel Shriver, whose new novel reflects many of the issues raised under Donald Trump's leadership.
All this week Robert McCrum has been talking to great American writers such as Richard Ford, Marilynne Robinson and Walter Mosley. Lionel Shriver's latest novel The Mandibles features a new America where there really is a wall between Mexico and the USA. She talks to Robert McCrum about how she will write a new America under President Trump.
Producer: Maggie Ayre.
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- Sat 21 Jan 2017 19:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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