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World Service,03 Jun 2011,18 mins

03/06/2011

The Strand

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The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day. Today, Harriett Gilbert talks to Ann Patchett, the award winning writer of Bel Canto, about her new book State of Wonder - a gripping story of science, love, motherhood and cultural colonialism.

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