Episode 2
Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New York in the late 1960s and 1970s.
In 1967, Patti is hungry, homeless and penniless, until a chance encounter in a bookstore changes her life for ever.
Abridged by Jeremy Osborne
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
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