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Salman Rushdie talks to radio drama director Emma Harding about his multi-award winning novel - Midnight's Children. They discuss the initial impetus for the novel and the mirroring of his own life as a child born 70 years ago in 1947, the year of India's Partition. Rushdie also talks about the break-through moment of finding Saleem's voice, his attempt to represent the multiplicity of India in a single novel, and his pessimism about the direction of travel of India and Pakistan today. Producer: Emma Harding First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in August 2017.