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19/05/2017

Confessions

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Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word, exploring confessions.

Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word, exploring confessions. With novelist and critic DJ Taylor, and performers Francesca Millican-Slater and Christopher Green.

The Verb this week is all about confessions. We're listening...

DJ Taylor is a novelist and a critic. His biography of George Orwell won the Whitbread Prize. His latest book is 'The Prose Factory' (Vintage) .

The performer Christopher Green is best known for his characters Tina C and Ida Barr, who both appear on Radio 4. For The Verb he is performing from his new show 'Prurience', which is at Southbank Centre in July.

Francesca Millican-Slater is performing from her piece examining the sin of Pride for the Penned in the Margins project 'Fair Field', a celebration of William Langland's 'Piers Plowman'

And Dr Lawrence Warner, Reader in English at King's College London explains why medieval texts are so fascinated with confession.

Producer: Faith Lawrence.

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