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Radio 4,26 Jan 2025,28 mins

Michelle de Kretser

Take Four Books

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This week Take Four Books, presented by James Crawford, talks to the award-winning Australian writer Michelle de Kretser about her new novel - Theory & Practice - and its three key influences. Michelle's choices were: the diary of Virginia Woolf from 1932; Ali Smith’s The Accidental from 2005; and Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus, from 1980. Producer: Dom Howell Editor: Annie McGuire Take Four Books is a BBC Audio Scotland production.

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