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Never Trust a Writer

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Dominic Arkwright and guests discuss being written about.

Dominic Arkwright discusses being written about. With guests Antonia Quirke, Terence Blacker and Bill Coles. From December 2010.

Never Trust a Writer, or you'll end up in their book, and you might not like what you read. Is everything fair game in the artistic process? 

Three writers who have all either dished on their loved ones - or been dished on.

Antonia Quirke, Terence Blacker and Bill Coles, battle it out, refereed by presenter Dominic Arkwright. 

Producer: Beth O'Dea.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010.

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