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Radio 4,08 Jul 2018,28 mins

AM Homes, NHS in fiction, Tommy Orange

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A M Homes talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new short story collection Days of Awe, which features a cast of characters grappling with the anxieties of modern life. Tommy Orange discusses the canon of Native American literature. The Wellcome Collection's Kirty Topiwala considers how fiction has approached the NHS. And novelist Wyl Menmuir reflects on the appeal of hands on hobbies for writers.

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