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Front Row: Art in response to trauma: Louise Allen and Maude Julien

Art in response to trauma: Louise Allen and Maude Julien

16/02/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Art in response to trauma: Louise Allen and Maude Julien

Writers of two memoirs on how art and literature served as a lifeline in very dark times.

Louise Allen and Maude Julien discuss their new memoirs, in which they look back at their abusive childhoods and how art and literature provided a lifeline in very dark times.

The trauma of child abuse lies at the heart of two new memoirs - Louise Allen's Thrown Away Child, and The Only Girl in the World by the French writer Maude Julien. 

As they look back over their years of mistreatment by the adults in their lives, they explain how they found solace in art and literature - which provided both a lifeline, and an escape from pain and deprivation that was being inflicted on them from a very early age. 

Presenter Stig Abell
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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