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13/06/2014

Viv Albertine, Hollie McNish, Salena Godden

BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, Viv Albertine, Hollie McNish, Salena Godden

Ian McMillan's guests include Viv Albertine, Hollie McNish and Salena Godden.

With Ian McMillan. With former slits guitarist Viv Albertine, performance poet Hollie McNish, Salena Godden on her childhood and Gary Robinson on the Choctaw code talkers of WWI.

Ian McMillan?s guests on the ?cabaret of the word? include singer-songwriter and former Slits guitarist Viv Albertine, whose memoir ?Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys? (Faber) is an account of surviving the male-dominated punk scene. Poet Hollie McNish performs from her work-in-progress album and book, Salena Godden recalls her childhood in Hastings in ?Springfield Road?, which also tells the story of her journey writing the book, and Gary Robinson explains how the language of the Native American Choctaw tribe became a useful tool in WWI.

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