Women's Hour Podcast | BBC Radio 4 | Broadcast 24 January 2011 | listen again here

Beeban Kidron has spent the last 30 years directing feature films, television dramas and documentaries. She first heard about the devadasi - Hindus who are married to god in childhood, and at puberty sold for sex - listening to a feature on Woman’s Hour. She knew instantly that it was a story she was going to tell. She travelled to India five times in one year to investigate this little understood community. Beeban joins Jane to talk about the resulting documentary, Sex Death and the Gods and why, despite her success in directing big budget movies, she is still prepared to work on a shoestring in order to telll stories about people’s lives.