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Night Waves - Julia Franck/Futurism/Occupation

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Isabel Hilton meets Julia Franck, author of The Blind Side of the Heart, the novel which won the 2007 German Book Prize, and has become a literary sensation. Andrew Graham-Dixon reviews the new exhibition of Futurism at Tate Modern, while journalist and documentary-maker Justine Hardy talks about her book In the Valley of Mist, which charts the transformation of the the former tranquil paradise of Kashmir into a conflict zone. Plus a review of Occupation, the BBC's first drama about the Iraq War, starring James Nesbitt.