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World Service,06 Dec 1999,28 mins

Writing the Century

My Century

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Five authors and actors choose their book of the century and explain what makes it so special. Billie Whitelaw talks about working with Samuel Beckett; Edmund White on Marcel Proust's seven volumne work Remembrance of Things Past; Annie Proulx on The Dictionary of Newfoundland English; Yomi A Michaels on Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart; and Ahdaf Soueif on Edward Said's autobiography Out of Place.

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