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Book of the Week

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Serialised book readings, featuring works from various genres

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

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Book of the Week: Patti Smith - Just Kids

Book of the Week: Patti Smith - Just Kids: Episode 2

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Just Kids

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Patti Smith - Just Kids

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Patti Smith - Just Kids, Episode 2

Patti Smith is hungry, homeless and penniless, until a chance encounter changes her life.

In 1967, Patti Smith is hungry, homeless and penniless, until a chance encounter changes her life forever. Read by the author.

Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New York in the late 1960s and 1970s. 

In 1967, Patti is hungry, homeless and penniless, until a chance encounter in a bookstore changes her life for ever.

Abridged by Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.

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Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New York in the late 1960s and 1970s

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