24/10/2008
Presented by Ian McMillan. With TV writer Tony Marchant on his play 24 Weeks, aboriginal author Anita Heiss, folk singer and song collector Sam Lee, and poet Simon Barraclough.
Ian McMillan's cabaret of language features writer Tony Marchant, winner of a Bafta award for his TV drama The Mark of Cain, on his play about abortion, 24 Weeks, written specially for Radio 3's 2008 Free Thinking festival.
Plus noted indigenous Australian poet and author Anita Heiss in a rare British interview, folk singer and song collector Sam Lee and a commission from Forward Prize-nominated poet Simon Barraclough.
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