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Our Amplify Producer, Craig, has been holed up in his makeshift bedroom studio talking to a host of exciting artists of national and international renown. These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few exciting ideas to explore from home during this time of Social Distancing. Today’s guest is Amit Sharma, Deputy Artistic Director of Birmingham Rep.Amit Sharma is Deputy Artistic Director at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and was formerly Associate Director at Graeae and Associate Artistic Director at Royal Exchange, Manchester. His production for Graeae and Theatre Royal Plymouth, The Solid Life of Sugar Water, received unanimous four and five star reviews, won the Euan’s Guide Most Accessible Show of the Fringe Award in 2015 and transferred to the National Theatre’s Temporary Space in spring 2016. Other directing credits for Graeae include One Under (national tour) Cosmic Scallies (co-production with Royal Exchange, Manchester). Outdoor productions include Aruna and the Raging Sun (part of the UK/INDIA Year of Culture in Chennai) Prometheus Awakes (London 2012 Festival) and The Iron Man (UK Tour).If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider donating to our Curtain Up Appeal, to ensure we can keep creating new work for audiences to enjoy: https://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/support/curtain-up-appeal/​​

Sisters is an all-female, work-in-progress, by British-South Asian and Indian artists, which explores what it means to be a South Asian woman in the UK/Wales and India/Mumbai today. Sisters is a collaboration between National Theatre Wales and Junoon Theatre Mumbai, and is part of India Wales, a major season of artistic collaboration between the two countries to mark the UK-India Year of Culture and is supported by British Council Wales, the Arts Council of Wales and Wales Arts International. In this podcast, our Associate Editor, Durre Shahwar (Community Engagement Associate for Sisters) speaks to some of the cast and creative team members behind the project, including Kully Thiarai (Artistic Director, National Theatre Wales), Sameera Iyengar (Contributing Artist, Junoon),  and Sapan Saran (Writer).

A Panel Discussion with Professor Ruth Harris, Shrimati Kajal Sheth and Professor Sir Richard Sorabji. This event marks the UK-India Year of Culture, which will be celebrated in the Oxford Town Hall on 24 January with the award-winning Indian play, Yugpurush: Mahatma's Mahatma, on the relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his mentor, Shrimad Rajchandra.

In this podcast recorded at the Hay Festival Wales 2017 Welsh and Indian authors and poets reflect on the theme of place and multilingualism in their writing. At the Hay Festival Wales 2017 India met Wales through poetry in the Hay Mela: a series of events that formed part of the UK/India Year of Culture 2017- a year of cultural exchange marking the 70th anniversary of India’s independence. The authors took part in the cross cultural collaboration project the Village, City and Valley brought together Welsh publisher Parthian Books, Kolkata-based Bee Books, Literature Wales and Wales Arts Review. The project is supported through India Wales, by the British Council and Wales Arts International. We spoke to Gary Redmond editor of the Wales Arts Review; Arunhava Sinha, a translator of classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction, non-fiction and poetry; Srijato, an acclaimed Bengali poet; and Welsh poet Siôn Tomos Owen who was born in the Rhondda Valley. They talk about their experiences of taking part in the Village, City and Valley project and read work in English, Bengali and Welsh. To find out more about Hay Festival visit http://www.hayfestival.org or follow the festival on Twitter @hayfestival Find out more: https://literature.britishcouncil.org/blog/2017/hay-festival-2017-podcast-india-and-wales-authors-come-together-to-explore-place