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Feel Free by Zadie Smith: Episode 1: 1. 1980s Multicultural London

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Episode 1: 1. 1980s Multicultural London

Feel Free by Zadie Smith

1. 1980s Multicultural London

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Zadie Smith reads from her electrifying essay collection.

Zadie Smith reads from her essay collection: sharp observations on high culture, pop culture and social change. From 2018.

Zadie Smith reads from her electrifying essay collection offering sharp, and often funny, insights and observations on high culture, pop culture, social change, political debate and the personal. 

She begins with her reflections on growing up in multicultural London in the 1980s. 

Wide-ranging, timely and witty, each essay is a perceptive view of the contemporary world from one of the best-regarded writers of her generation.

Zadie Smith is the award-winning author of the novels, White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time. 

Feel Free is her second essay collection. She was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young Novelists in 2003 and 2013. Her 2000 debut 'White Teeth' won numerous literary awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. 

Zadie is a professor of fiction at New York University.

Abridged in five parts and produced by Elizabeth Allard.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2018.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Zadie Smith reads from her essay collection. Abridged by Elizabeth Allard.

Zadie Smith reads from her essay collection offering sharp observations on high culture, pop culture, social change, political debate and the personal. Abridged by Elizabeth Allard

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