Salman Rushdie on BBC Radio 4, a year after death threat
- Title
- Salman Rushdie on BBC Radio 4, a year after death threat
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 27 Apr 1990
- Year of production
- 1990
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- Duration
- 00:01:39
- Description
- Philip Cottrell reports on an interview with novelist Salman Rushdie (includes excerpts) that was broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme a year after the death threat against him was announced in 1989. The interviewer on the Today programme is not heard.
- Contributors
- BBC; Salman Rushdie; BBC Radio 4; Philip Cottrell
- Keywords
- Books; Authors; Religion; Writers; Censorship; Novelists; Novels; Islam; Personal safety; Muslims; Salman Rushdie; The Satanic Verses; Controversial literature; Fatwa
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LBC/IRN, "Salman Rushdie on BBC Radio 4, a year after death threat". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0004200417006 (Accessed 08 May 2025)