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World Service,10 Aug 2001,28 mins

Standing Up For What You Believe In

Everywoman

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Arundhati Roy is the Booker Prize winner for The God Of Small Things and one of India's most prominent activists. Campaigning against nuclear power and the dams which threaten many homes in India, she's recently been in court for incitement to violence and faces prison. She talks to the programme about her uncertainty about the future. Also on the programme: Poetry in Eritrea - its role for women and the whole nation. Plus, why American singer Eva Cassidy achieved success only in death.

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