With Radio 4’s new adaption of Salman Rushdie's hugely popular novel marking the 70th anniversary of the partition of India, we take a look at what made the original text such a beloved classic.

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Radio 4’s recent adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize-winning second novel Midnight’s Children is based on the turbulent events following the partition of India in 1947. Here’s an ...