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Proms Extra: Tagore

Proms Extra: Tagore

Novelist Tahmima Anam and Preti Taneja join Rana Mitter to explore the writing of Tagore.

Arts & Ideas · BBC Radio 4

September 1, 201636m 46s

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Show Notes

Tonight’s Prom features a setting by Zemlinsky of ‘The Gardener’ by the great Bengali poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Novelist Tahmima Anam and New Generation Thinker Preti Taneja, from the University of Cambridge, discuss the poem and Tagore’s place in both Bengali and world culture. The discussion is chaired by Rana Mitter who is a regular presenter of Radio 3’s Arts and Ideas programme Free Thinking and of Sunday Features.

Producer: Jacqueline Smith