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Writing at Home - Experiments in Living

Ian McMillan on 'writing at home' with Maggie O'Farrell and Brian Bilston.

Ian McMillan on how 'writing at home' inspires, constrains and infuses language and storytelling - with guests Maggie O'Farrell, whose award-winning novel 'Hamnet' takes us inside Shakespeare's home, the unofficial Poet Laureate of Twitter Brian Bilston, Berlin-based writer and football pundit Musa Okwonga, and poet Holly Peste, who has written a specially commissioned piece inspired by the sound of writing at home.

Producer: Ruth Thomson

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44 minutes

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Fri 19 Mar 202122:00

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  • Fri 19 Mar 202122:00

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