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A comprehensive anthology of dramatisations and readings of Tagoreâs finest works, plus bonus documentaries
Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. A novelist, poet, playwright, composer, artist and philosopher, he wrote both the Indian and Bangladeshi national anthems; exchanged ideas with Yeats, Einstein and Gandhi, and was hugely influential in promoting Indian culture to the West. This collection includes some of Tagoreâs key novels, plays and short stories, as well as his best-known poem and four fascinating biographical programmes.
We begin with two adaptations by award-winning dramatist Tanika Gupta. The Home and the World, starring Indira Varma and Sacha Dhawan, relocates Tagoreâs classic 1916 novel of love, power and political awakening to a contemporary British Muslim setting. Often acclaimed as Tagoreâs best play, The Red Oleander stars Saeed Jaffrey and Aileen Gonsalves, and tells the story of a beautiful girl who comes to a gold mining community and foments a revolution against its tyrannical king.
Next up is a dramatisation of the novelette Farewell, My Friend, a romantic, delightful tale of two young lovers starring Sam Dastor and Shireen Shah. It is followed by three short stories: âThe Postmasterâ and âThe Kabuliwalahâ, read by Ronny Jhutti, and âWealth Surrenderedâ, read by Renu Setna.
Tagore bared his musical soul in the poem âBroken Songâ, read here by Peter Barker, and in Centurions: Rabindranath Tagore, poet William Radice and theatre director Jatinder Verma explain why it ranks as one of the 100 greatest art works of the 20th Century. Tanika Gupta joins presenter Matthew Parris and translator Ketaki Kushari Dyson to share her love of Tagoreâs writing in Great Lives: Tanika Gupta on Rabindranath Tagore, and Zia Mohyeddin reads a selection of his epistolary observations on English society and customs in Letters from Europe. Concluding the collection, Rabindranath Tagore: The Bard of Bengal explores the life and legacy of South Asiaâs Shakespeare.
First published 1891 (âThe Postmasterâ), 1891-2 (âWealth Surrenderedâ), 1892 (âThe Kabuliwalahâ), 1910 (âBroken Songâ), 1916 (The Home and the World), 1925 (The Red Oleander), 1929 (Farewell, My Friend)
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Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. A novelist, poet, playwright, composer, artist and philosopher, he wrote both the Indian and Bangladeshi national anthems; exchanged ideas with Yeats, Einstein and Gandhi, and was hugely influential in promoting Indian culture to the West. This collection includes some of Tagoreâs key novels, plays and short stories, as well as his best-known poem and four fascinating biographical programmes.
We begin with two adaptations by award-winning dramatist Tanika Gupta. The Home and the World, starring Indira Varma and Sacha Dhawan, relocates Tagoreâs classic 1916 novel of love, power and political awakening to a contemporary British Muslim setting. Often acclaimed as Tagoreâs best play, The Red Oleander stars Saeed Jaffrey and Aileen Gonsalves, and tells the story of a beautiful girl who comes to a gold mining community and foments a revolution against its tyrannical king.
Next up is a dramatisation of the novelette Farewell, My Friend, a romantic, delightful tale of two young lovers starring Sam Dastor and Shireen Shah. It is followed by three short stories: âThe Postmasterâ and âThe Kabuliwalahâ, read by Ronny Jhutti, and âWealth Surrenderedâ, read by Renu Setna.
Tagore bared his musical soul in the poem âBroken Songâ, read here by Peter Barker, and in Centurions: Rabindranath Tagore, poet William Radice and theatre director Jatinder Verma explain why it ranks as one of the 100 greatest art works of the 20th Century. Tanika Gupta joins presenter Matthew Parris and translator Ketaki Kushari Dyson to share her love of Tagoreâs writing in Great Lives: Tanika Gupta on Rabindranath Tagore, and Zia Mohyeddin reads a selection of his epistolary observations on English society and customs in Letters from Europe. Concluding the collection, Rabindranath Tagore: The Bard of Bengal explores the life and legacy of South Asiaâs Shakespeare.
First published 1891 (âThe Postmasterâ), 1891-2 (âWealth Surrenderedâ), 1892 (âThe Kabuliwalahâ), 1910 (âBroken Songâ), 1916 (The Home and the World), 1925 (The Red Oleander), 1929 (Farewell, My Friend)
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