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Free Thinking: Hay Festival 2017: Writing history with Sebastian Barry, Jake Arnott, Madeleine Thien

Hay Festival 2017: Writing history with Sebastian Barry, Jake Arnott, Madeleine Thien

01/06/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Hay Festival 2017: Writing history with Sebastian Barry, Jake Arnott, Madeleine Thien

At 2017's Hay Festival, Sarah Dillon chairs a discussion about writing history.

Sarah Dillon chairs a discussion from 2017's Hay Festival in which three authors of historical novels explore the way research and family history have informed their fiction.

The authors of three historical novels discuss the way research and family history have informed their fiction in a discussion recorded at the Hay Festival chaired by New Generation Thinker Sarah Dillon from the University of Cambridge. 

Jake Arnott has set novels in the 1960s, the 1940s and the 1900s and in his latest novel The Fatal Tree he depicts the criminal world in 18th century London. 
Madeleine Thien's novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing explores the impact of the Cultural Revolution on two generations of musicians. It has won prizes in her native Canada and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. 
Sebastian Barry won the Costa Book of the Year for his novel Days Without End, which imagines the gay relationship between soldiers caught up in the American Civil War. 

Producer: Zahid Warley.

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