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Radio 4,21 May 2017,8 mins

Lesson Four: Creating Characters

The Invisible College

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How nosy are you about your protagonist? Do you know what she eats for breakfast? Likes to dance to? How she parts her hair? A lesson about creating characters, with tips from Graham Greene and Muriel Spark, plus Baroness Orczy reveals how she met the Scarlet Pimpernel.

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