International bestselling novelist Tayari Jones

Nikki Bedi meets international bestselling author Tayari Jones whose award-winning novel ‘An American Marriage’ was chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her Book Club and was championed by former US President Barack Obama. As an important contemporary voice in American fiction, Tayari is celebrated for writing about race, class, and life in the American South, all of which feature in her latest novel Kin.

Tayari Jones and film critic Guy Lodge join Nikki in conversation about the week’s cultural highlights

Director and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman on using poetry in his films

Singer-songwriter Jill Scott on collaborating with hip hop legends The Roots

French actor Isabelle Huppert on her role in the film, The Richest Woman in the World

Literary Translator Lin King, explains her work on this year’s International Booker Prize winning novel, Taiwan Travelogue

And there’s desert blues from Malian band Tamikrest

Photo Credit: Julie Yarborough