The BBC World Service airs World Book Club: Elif Shafak onSunday, March 2 at 1200 ET. This program is 53 minutes and is unclocked. There will be no bottom of the hour funders, cutaway, billboard or newscast. Stations in automation will need to change their automation.

The Arts Hour will be dropped to accommodate.

Description: Harriett Gilbert talks to Elif Shafak in front of a live audience about her novel, The Forty Rules of Love. The story follows Ella Rubinstein, an American housewife, on a journey of self-discovery as she examines her life and the concept of love. In a lyrical meditation on poetry and passion, her life is transformed by an intriguing manuscript about the Sufi mystic poet Rumi.