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Sara Wheeler navigates the tricky issue of voice appropriation.

Sara Wheeler, recently appointed Jan Morris's authorised biographer, ponders the issue of voice appropriation.

Sara Wheeler has just been appointed the authorised biographer of the travel writer, Jan Morris. But she faces a dilemma. She's concerned that she is 'effectively appropriating the story of a woman who appropriated hundreds of other stories'. 

How, she wonders, can she navigate this tricky territory.   

Producer: Adele Armstrong 
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Iona Hammond
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

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