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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Twenty Minutes

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media: Arts

Eclectic arts magazine programme, exploring a range of fascinating subjects

Eclectic arts magazine programme, exploring a range of fascinating people, places and events

Twenty Minutes: My Summer Job

Twenty Minutes: My Summer Job: Episode 4: Claire Messud

Claire Messud

Episode 4

Episode 4: Claire Messud

My Summer Job

BBC Radio 3 - Twenty Minutes, My Summer Job, Claire Messud

Claire Messud on having worked pushing the elderly in wheelchairs and slaving in offices.

In a series where writers discuss temporary jobs they took before writing full time, Claire Messud recalls work including pushing the elderly in wheelchairs and slaving in offices.

Novelist Claire Messud remembers the summer jobs she had before she became a writer. They included pushing elderly Americans in their wheelchairs and slaving in offices for tyrannical bosses. 

Producer: Tim Dee.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Five writers talk about the temporary jobs they took before taking up writing full time

Series of talks in which writers talk about the temporary jobs they took before taking up writing full time. Is the summer job an enemy of promise or the best experience for a would-be writer?

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