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27/03/2011

Mariella Frostrup talks to Monica Ali about her new book, a novel inspired by the life of Princess Diana, and writer and critic James Runcie assesses the legacy of Virginia Woolf.

Mariella Frostrup talks to author of Brick Lane Monica Ali about her new book, a novel inspired by the life of Princess Diana.

Seventy years after her death, novelist and critic James Runcie assesses the legacy of Virginia Woolf.

And librarians, listeners and writer Dreda Say Mitchell defend public libraries.

Producer: Sally Spurring.

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