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As Merchant Ivory super fans, we were surprised (and chagrined!) that we’d been unaware of Ismael Merchant and James Ivory’s longtime collaborator, novelist and Academy Award winning-screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Hollywood screenwriter Brigitte Hales joins us to discuss Jhabvala and her Booker Prize-winning 1975 novel, Heat and Dust. 

Discussed in this episode: 

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Brigitte Hales 

Disenchanted (2022 film)

Merchant Ivory Productions

A Room with a View (1985 film)

Howard’s End (1992 film)

The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Nissim Ezekiel

The Householder (1963 film)

Heat and Dust (1983 film)

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