Fresh Air with Terry Gross, JULY 11, 2016: Interview with Christopher Eccelston; Review of 2 novels from Mexico

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(1.) British actor CHRISTOPHER ECCELSTON. He plays Maurice, the grandfather of a boy with autism in the BBC series The A Word, which begins next week on the Sundance Channel. ECCELSTON also had a role in HBO's The Leftovers as Reverend Matt Jamison. He was also in the films Let Him Have It, Shallow Grave and Gone in Sixty Seconds, and the British TV series Cracker. He played Doctor Who for one season. (INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).(2.) Critic-at-large JOHN POWERS says there's recently been an explosion of literary talent in Mexico. He reviews two Mexican novels that have been translated to English: Among Strange Victims by Daniel Saldana Paris, and The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera.