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Radio 4,04 May 2015,30 mins

SeriesSeries 1

Episode 1

The Invisible College

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Dr Cathy FitzGerald presents a series of little lessons in creative writing with help from a ghostly array of great novelists, poets and playwrights. In episode one, Maya Angelou faces dragons, Ted Hughes wrestles goblins, Charles Bukowski interrupts, Susan Sontag gets drunk on books, and Elizabeth Bowen catches a bad case of Henry James. Original music by Joe Acheson Produced by Cathy FitzGerald A White Stiletto production for BBC Radio 4.

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