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Something Understood: 99 Words - Episode 1

99 Words - Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, 99 Words - Episode 1

Liz Gray asks if you had breath for no more than 99 words, what would they be?

In the first of a pair of programmes, Liz Gray asks if you had breath for no more than 99 words, what would they be?

When Liz Gray found herself limited, forced into a strange period of enforced retreat by a whiplash injury, the following question came to her mind: if you had breath for no more than 99 words, what would they be?

She began asking friends, colleagues, artists and political figures she admired, gathering together a collection of 99 responses.

In the first of a pair of programmes, she describes the genesis of her '99 Words' project and introduces contributions from, among others, Jeanette Winterson, Robert Wyatt, Scilla Elworthy and Diana Athill.


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