Julian Barnes on BBC World

[Ya Sam]

Liked his 'History of the World..."  a lot.

HARDtalk Extra

Fridays @ 03:30~; 08:30; 14:30; 18:30 & 23:30 GMT
~ Not Asia Pacific or South Asia

Each week HARDtalk Extra will profile the personalities that make the news, 
leading figures from the arts and entertainment, scientists and overnight 
success stories. HARDtalk Extra asks why the spotlight fell on them.


Friday 22nd September:
A miscarriage of justice revealed, institutional racism exposed and a 
government burying bad news on a quiet day. It sounds like a modern-day 
scandal, but it took place in late Victorian England. It is the latest 
inspiration for the author Julian Barnes, who first made his name with the 
book Flaubert's Parrot. He tells Gavin Esler why he was compelled to write 
about the obscure case of George Edalji, a Birmingham solicitor persecuted 
for the colour of his skin, whose cause was taken up by none other than 
Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. What does it say about 
modern British attitudes that this remains the great British race scandal 
that never was?

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