The Essay: Double Vision

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The Essay: Double Vision: Alvin Pang

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Double Vision

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Double Vision, Alvin Pang

Alvin Pang performs an essay recorded at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival.

Alvin Pang is one of five poets to share the dual perspective afforded to his life and writing by links to the Commonwealth.

Poet, editor and writer Alvin Pang loves Singapore. It’s just that he doesn’t necessarily want to be in Singapore. He loves it, but the cause for this is a wanderlust and a need for movement which has given him an instinct to push down walls. He explores how the Singapore mindset of the convivial host can set a writer in good stead for a creative life.
  
Presented by Alvin Pang
Produced by Kevin Core

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Five essays recorded at this year's Contains Strong Language festival in Birmingham.

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