Katie Goh (12:00 BST)

The orange we know, waxed in vats, gathered in red netting and stacked in supermarkets, is not the same orange that grew from the first straggling orange grove that took root on the Tibetan plateau, part pomelo and part mandarin. The orange is a souvenir of history. Across time, it has been a harbinger of God and doom, fortune and failure, pleasure and suffering. It is a fruit that inspires metaphors, dreams, mythologies, superstitions, parables and histories within its tough rind. What happens when the fruit is peeled and each segment - each moment of history, each meaning in time - is pulled apart?

In this distinct, subversive and intimate hybrid memoir, Foreign Fruit, writer and editor Katie Goh explores the orange as a means of understanding the world, and herself within it. What she finds is a world of violence, colonialism, resilience, survival, adaptation - and of unexpected beauty and sweetness against all odds.

In conversation with Esa Aldegheri

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