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Women of the World

Kim Chakanetsa talks to the acclaimed authors Isabel Allende and Edna O’Brien.

Join presenter Kim Chakanetsa for an hour of conversation with the acclaimed authors Isabel Allende and Edna O’Brien.
Isabel talks about finding love in her seventies and how she is coping with isolation and Covid-19. Edna, now 89, talks about her latest Novel, Girl, which took her to Nigeria - and she too discusses dealing with loneliness and the power of literature in the midst of crisis.

Producer: Helen Towner

Studio Manager: Duncan Hannant

Photo credit: Edna O'Brien by Murdo MacLeod

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50 minutes

Last on

Mon 13 Apr 202009:06GMT
BBC World Service

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