How Children of a Lesser God became a landmark for the Deaf
Playwright Mark Medoff on writing Children of a Lesser God for a deaf friend
"I set out to write a love story about a person who happened to be deaf and female," says playwright Mark Medoff about Children of a Lesser God, now at the Mermaid Theatre in London, on how he came to write a "landmark statement" for the deaf. At Sadler's Wells, Mario Maya's Gypsy Flamenco Theatre presents Ay! Hondo, about the persecution of the Spanish Gypsies. Director Moustapha Akkad talks about his film Lion of the Desert, starring Anthony Quinn as the Bedouin hero, Omar Muktar. Plus, how the reclusive hero of Philip Roth's new novel, Zuckerman Unbound, becomes a reluctant celebrity as he is thrown into a "storm of vulgarity".
Presenter: Peter Clayton.
More episodes
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive
This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project
