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Cathy Macdonald Gets Personal: Episode 9

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Episode 9

BBC Radio Scotland - Cathy Macdonald Gets Personal, Episode 9

Cathy Macdonald talks to award-winning Scottish-born novelist Aminatta Forna.

Cathy Macdonald talks to novelist Aminatta Forna, whose writing has been influenced by her time in Sierra Leone, where her political activist father was killed in 1975.

With the award-winning Scottish-born novelist, Aminatta Forna, who spent much of her childhood in Sierra Leone. Born to a Scottish mother and a Sierra Leonean father, Aminatta Forna drew on her childhood experiences and her investigation into her political activist's father's death in her book 'The Devil that Danced on the Water.'.

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Cathy Macdonald talks to a series of guests about their personal lives and interests.

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