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Free Thinking: 2015 Festival

Joanna Kavenna

Natasha Pulley

Susannah Clapp

Christopher Frayling

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Emily Woof

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Free Thinking: 2015 Festival: Landmark: Angela Carter

Landmark: Angela Carter

23/11/2015

2015 Festival

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, 2015 Festival, Landmark: Angela Carter

Philip Dodd explores the writing and legacy of Angela Carter.

Philip Dodd explores the writing of Angela Carter with critic Christopher Frayling, novelists Joanna Kavenna and Natasha Pulley and writer Susannah Clapp. The Reader is Emily Woof.

Angela Carter's work was described by Salman Rushdie as 'without equal and without rival'. The award winning author of novels including The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children and Nights at the Circus was a pioneer of English magic realism who re-imagined fairy tales and explored boundary breaking and rebelling against the confines of society. Her non fiction book The Sadeian Woman explored the ideology of pornography.

Thirteen years after her early death, the novelists Joanna Kavenna and Natasha Pulley join Angela Carter's literary executor Susannah Clapp and her friend the cultural critic Christopher Frayling to discuss Carter's writing and influence with Free Thinking presenter Philip Dodd. The readings are performed by Emily Woof.

Christopher Frayling is the author of Inside the Bloody Chamber: on Angela Carter, the Gothic, and other weird tales which draws on the letters he and Carter exchanged.

Joanna Kavenna is the author of five novels including Come to the Edge. In 2013 she was included in the Granta List of 20 best young writers.

Natasha Pulley is the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and a graduate of the creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia.

Susannah Clapp is the author of A Card from Angela Carter and Theatre Critic for The Observer.

Recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival Sage Gateshead and first broadcast in November 2015.

Producer: Zahid Warley.

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Events from the 2015 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'tearing up the rule book'

Series of events from the 2015 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'tearing up the rule book'

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