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Free Thinking: Part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival. 1/4. Novelist Kamila Shamsie asks if it's necessary for a writer to travel widely in order to unleash their imagination.
Free Thinking
As part of BBC Radio 3's festival of ideas, Free Thinking, The Essay plays host to writers reflecting on freedom.
1/4. Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie brandishes her writer's passport and asks if it's necessary for a writer to travel widely in order to unleash their imagination. Or can they explore universal human experience, wherever it occurs?
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- Mon 12 Nov 200723:00BBC Radio 3
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