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Ayelet Gundar-Goshen on Waking Lions

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Mariella Frostrup talks to Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. Her new book Waking Lions is a morality tale about a doctor who kills a man in a hit and run accident.
While Melissa Harrison and Amy Liptrot discuss their chronicling of landscape in their nature writing. Michiel Heyns, author of The Typewriter's Tale, ponders why he and so many writers fictionalise Henry James in their novels.
And we hear from Alison McLeod about her new role as a Eccles British Library Writer- in- Residence. Show less

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Interviewed Guest:
Melissa Harrison
Interviewed Guest:
Amy Liptrot
Interviewed Guest:
Michiel Heynes
Interviewed Guest:
Alison MacLeod

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