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  1. Bookclub - Donna Tartt's Secret History

    Jim Naughtie

    Jim Naughtie presents Bookclub on BBC Radio 4

    James Naughtie talks about meeting Donna Tartt and how she explains her cult debut novel The Secret History, first published in 1992.

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  2. Feminine Mystiques: In thrall to glamour - the story behind Mink

    Marina Warner

    Author

    Fifty years since the first publication of Betty Friedan's seminal feminist work The Feminine Mystique, Radio 4 has commissioned three leading writers to celebrate her influence in new short stories exploring the contemporary feminist landscape. Marina Warner explains the inspiration behind her ...

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  3. Hombre - Pushing the walls outwards

    Martha Littlehailes

    Senior Studio Manager

    Martha Littlehailes, Senior Studio Manager in the London Radio Drama team, explains how her team created the sound world of 1880s Arizona mining country for the production of Elmore Leonard’s Hombre.

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  4. The Manhattan Bee Testimonials

    Joby Waldman

    Producer

    This is the story of the search for the Manhattan Bee Man - a guy who apparently lives in New York with 250,000 bees in his apartment and is completely oblivious to the discomfort. Is he real or is he a just another bogie man? It's also about Alphabet City, and the truly amazing people who live ...

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  5. Roger Bolton interviews Mark Damazer for

    Roger Bolton

    Mark Damazer, the Controller of Radio 4, does not hide his love for the new-found land across the ocean. His office on the fourth floor of BBC Broadcasting House is full of Americana, including a large framed Boston Red Sox shirt, and when I interviewed him for the latest edition of I t...

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  6. America, Empire of Liberty

    David Reynolds

    Editor's note: Radio 4's 90-part history series America, Empire of Liberty, ends today at 1545. Writer and presenter Professor David Reynolds reflects on the experience. "I hear you're doing some programmes history. How many?" "Ninety", I would say, a little sheepishly. Pause. Frown...

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  7. Americana

    Matt Frei

    America is so vast that almost everything you say about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true. That's how the late Irish-American novelist James T. Farrell summed up the intriguing complexity of the United States. I have found this to be a very useful quote. It cover...

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