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How can women counteract the increasing polarisation of the modern world, such as the disparity between Christianity and Islam, the Western and Arab worlds? Ahdaf Souei has devoted her latest book to a study of this, Mezzaterra: Fragments From The Common Ground.

Also on the programme: How a South African storyteller uses fiction to reach out to cynical teenagers. Plus, what drove City worker Rhianne Benson to give up banking for soul music?