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Becoming, by Michelle Obama

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Michelle Obama reads from her compelling memoir, inviting listeners into her world.

Michelle Obama reads from her compelling memoir, inviting listeners into her world. With honesty and wit, she tells her story as she has lived it.

You can hear Michelle Obama read from her compelling memoir on Radio 4's Book of the Week where she invites listeners into her world. In Becoming she chronicles the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With honesty and wit, she tells her story as she has lived it.

Becoming, by Michelle Obama: Episode 1

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Michelle Obama reads from her new memoir. First, from Chicago's South Side to Princeton

Michelle Obama reads from her eagerly awaited memoir. A young woman from Chicago's South Side is on her way to Princeton..

In her new memoir Michelle Obama chronicles the life experiences that have shaped her; abridged for radio by Katrin Williams.

We first join her on the way to Princeton, driven there by her father, with boyfriend David as company too. A whole new world will be opening up, from the South Side in Chicago to these hallowed halls of learning..

Reader Michelle Obama.

Producer Duncan Minshull

(Photo credit: Courtesy of the Obama-Robinson Archive)

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