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Art That Shook the World

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Virginia Woolf's Orlando. Joely Richardson and Saffron Burrows star in an account of the affair between author Virginia Woolf and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West that inspired Woolf's 1928 novel. In the penultimate part of the series examining influential and controversial works of art Jeanette Winterson, writer of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and essays on Woolf, puts the case for regarding Orlando as a pioneering work of modern fiction.
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Contributors

Vita Sackville-West:
Saffron Burrows
Virginia Woolf:
Joely Richardson
Narrator:
Jeanette Winterson
Director:
Sarah Aspinall
Series Editor:
Andrea Miller
Source: Radio Times

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