This is a brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of this contemporary classic and winner of the 1981 Booker Prize. Running time: 4.50hr Nikesh Patel stars as Saleem in BBC Radio 4's epic dramatisation of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning novel of love, history and magicSaleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations.