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Radio 3,14 Apr 2020,44 mins

What's so great about EM Forster

Free Thinking

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Deborah Levy and Laurence Scott talk to Shahidha Bari about the writer's work from his earliest novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), to his essay, Aspects of the Novel. Recorded in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature at the British Library. Producer: Torquil MacLeod Laurence Scott present a Radio 3 Sunday Feature about Merchant Ivory, which includes interviews about their film adaptations of EM Forster's work https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04003kn Find more programmes about literature in this Free Thinking Prose and Poetry playlist on our website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047v6vh You'll find Deborah Levy on Writing and Frankness, Wilfred Owen Poetry and Peace, winners of the RSL Ondaatje Prize debating place, all recorded with the Royal Society of Literature at the British Library. Our Landmarks collection includes programmes about George Eliot, James Joyce, George Orwell and many other writers https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jwn44

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