Women Talking About Cars 

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Women Talking About Cars

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Victoria Coren Mitchell interviews women about their lives and the cars they have known.

Victoria Coren Mitchell presents an interview series in which famous women look at their lives from the perspective of the cars they have known.

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Women Talking About Cars: Series 3: 3. Lynda La Plante

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Victoria Coren Mitchell talks to Lynda La Plante about her life and cars.

Lynda La Plante tells Victoria Coren Mitchell about life and cars she has known, from a Mini Cooper to a Mercedes. From 2018.

Lynda La Plante, is the award-winning writer behind Prime Suspect and Widows.

She talks to Victoria Coren Mitchell about her life and the cars she has driven along the way.

From her origins in Liverpool to the stage to the USA and becoming a writer, via a Mini Cooper that turned out to be two Mini Coopers stuck together, a magnificent Mercedes and love at first sight with a Rolls Royce Corniche. 

Lynda tells her hilarious, uplifting and thought-provoking life story.

Readings by Sarah Hadland

Producer: Gareth Edwards

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2018.

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