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Radio 4,20 Feb 2011,30 mins

20/02/2011

Open Book

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Mariella Frostrup talks to first time novelist Sarah Winman and investigates the rise of debut fiction this year. Authors Muriel Zagha and John Baxter discuss how the the art of writing about sensuality is poles apart in French and English literature. And we look back at the radical series of Penguin modern classics, now classics themselves at fifty. Producer: Sally Spurring.

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