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New Orleans' oppressive atmosphere stirs memories of childhood visits and an ex-lover - and stark comparisons between the south and Joan Didion's home in California.
New Orleans' oppressive atmosphere stirs memories of childhood visits and an ex-lover - and stark comparisons between the South and Joan Didion's home in California.
From the best-selling author of the award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking - excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks.
Joan Didion has always kept notebooks of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles - and here is one that traces a road trip she took in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
And in her native west, the memoir piece California Notes that began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial of 1976.
Read by Laurel Lefkow
Abridged by Eileen Horne
Produced by Clive Brill
Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan
A Brill production for BBC Radio 4.
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| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Reader | Laurel Lefkow |
| Author | Joan Didion |
| Abridger | Eileen Horne |
| Producer | Clive Brill |
| Director | Eoin O'Callaghan |
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- Mon 11 Sep 201709:45BBC Radio 4 FM
- Tue 12 Sep 201700:30BBC Radio 4
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