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Night Waves - Bidisha

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This programme includes some strong language. Bidisha talks to South Africa's most significant novelist, essayist and poet Andre Brink. Opening in London this week and with a 'Broadway musical' treatment, the 19th century drama of teenage sexuality, Spring Awakening, is reviewed. Plus Tom Perotta, author of the Abstinence Teacher, a new novel about evangelical America and sex education, discussing the American chastity movement with Bidisha and historian Anke Bernau. The programme includes some strong language.