Kathy O'Shaughnessy, George Eliot, Literary Magazines and Jason Reynolds

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Kathy O'Shaughnessy talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new novel charting the scandalous life and groundbreaking work of George Eliot - pen name of Mary Ann Evans who was born two hundred years ago this month. On the 35th anniversary of Wasafiri, a journal of international contemporary, we are joined by outgoing editor Susheila Nasta to discuss the ongoing importance of literary magazines, together with Francesca Wade from the White Review and Ed Needham of Strong Words. And for his Book I'd Never Lend, author Jason Reynolds choses a poetry collection by icon of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes.