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Stories that Changed the World

22/06/2018 GMT

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Clemency Burton-Hill hosts a panel to discuss stories that have shaped the world.

BBC Culture asked writers, thinkers and leaders to nominate the stories that they think have shaped the world. Clemency Burton-Hill hosts a panel of authors to discuss the results.

BBC Culture has recently asked writers, literary critics, journalists, thinkers and leaders to nominate the stories that they think have shaped the world. These are the stories that have really changed the way people think or live and have marked a turning point in society for the people who read them. At The Hay Festival 2018, Clemency Burton-Hill hosts a panel of authors that includes Colm Toibin, Kamila Shamsie and Sarah Churchwell, to discuss the results and debate the importance and power of fiction in the real world.

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