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Xiaolu Guo was named as one of Granta\u2019s Best of Young British Novelists 2013. She talks about her latest book A Lover\u2019s Discourse, which is a story of love and language \u2013 and the meaning of home set at the time of the European referendum. With a nod to Roland Barthes\u2019 book of the same name, Guo\u2019s novel is told through conversations between a Chinese woman newly arrived in the UK and her Anglo-German boyfriend.

It is 100 years since Bernard Leach, with his Japanese colleague Hamada Shojie, established his pottery in St Ives. Since then his influence as a studio potter, making vessels that are both beautiful and functional, by hand, has spread around the globe. Roelof Uys, the lead potter at the studio today, discusses Leach's ideas and work, and the projects marking the centenary.

Last night three members of the Belarus Free Theatre - Nadia Brodskaya, Sveta Sugako and Dasha Andreyanova - were arrested in Minsk, during protests against the results - widely believed to be fabricated - of the election there. Their colleagues in the company do not know where they are being held. We hear from Natalia Kaliada, one of the founding directors of the Belarus Free Theatre, the only theatre company in Europe banned by its government on political grounds.

London's Donmar Warehouse is re-opening temporarily from 3 to 22 August with a socially-distanced sound installation, Blindness, which is based on the dystopian novel by Nobel prize-winning Jos\xe9 Saramago, adapted by Simon Stephens and starring the voice of Juliet Stevenson. Susannah Clapp reviews.

Main image above: Xiaolu Guo\nImage credit: Stephen Barker

Presenter Tom Sutcliffe\nProducer Jerome Weatherald