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|  | | Defying any attempt to pigeonhole her skills and talents Mariella combines her television and radio career with that of a prolific journalist.
Over a fifteen-year TV career she has continued to impress both audiences and critics with her friendly, accessible and intelligent screen presence. Her projects run the gamut from current affairs to movies and the arts.
As a journalist she is currently the film critic for Harpers And Queen and has a weekly dilemma column in The Observer Magazine, while her book reviews and travel pieces appear regularly in the press. She has also been a member of the Booker-Mann Prize panel.
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This Week on Open Book:
A Special Mother's Day programme about mothers in fiction and non-fiction. Mariella Frostrup talks to Rachel Cusk about her new novel The Lucky Ones which features a series of interlocking stories about parenthood.
The memoirist Kathryn Harrison reads from her devastating new memoir Seeking Rapture which tells of the neglect she suffered at the hands of her mother as a child. She also explains why she doesn't feel self-pity, after all, she has a compelling story to write.
The writers Blake Morrison and Diran Adebayo explain how their own mothers feature in their writing and the writer and critic Robert Winder is on hand to suggest why there seem to be few mothers in literature.
Books
Rachel Cusk
The Lucky Ones
Fourth Estate
Kathryn Harrison
Seeking Rapture and The Kiss
Fourth Estate
Blake Morrison
Things My Mother Never Told Me
Chatto and Windus
Eva Hoffman
The Secret
Vintage
Diran Adebayo
Some Kind Of Black
Virago Press
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