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New Heroes: A Search For Role Models In Difficult Times
Irenosen Okojie and Frank Gardner join Shahidha Bari to discuss inspirational characters
  1. New Heroes: A Search For Role Models In Difficult Times
    40:31
    New Heroes: A Search For Role Models In Difficult Times
  2. "The library was my salvation"
    01:07
    "The library was my salvation"
    View More From A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
  3. A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
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    A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
    View More From A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
  4. "It was an all-consuming masculinity"
    02:38
    "It was an all-consuming masculinity"
  5. Digging In: How Our Food Shapes Our Lives
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    Digging In: How Our Food Shapes Our Lives
  6. "I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
    02:17
    "I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
  7. How To Be A Man
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    How To Be A Man
  8. "How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
    03:39
    "How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
  9. "It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
    02:37
    "It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
  10. “It wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out”
    01:55
    “It wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out”
  11. "This book presented another kind of representation"
    01:37
    "This book presented another kind of representation"
  12. "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
    03:33
    "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
  13. "It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
    02:06
    "It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
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