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The Verb: Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith

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Ian McMillan talks to Zadie Smith in a special extended interview.

Ian McMillan presents a special extended interview with Zadie Smith.

This week The Verb offers you another chance to hear a special extended interview with Zadie Smith. Her audacious first book 'White Teeth', written when she was just 24, was one of the most talked about debut novels of all time.  Most of Smith's novels take place in north west London, where she grew up, and which she has described as the location of her imagination, and her heart.  In her latest novel 'The Fraud', also set in the area, Smith moves into historical fiction with a story inspired by an extraordinary real life court case.


Presenter: Ian McMillan 
Producer: Cecile Wright 

First Broadcast 13 Oct 2023

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