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Cecil Day Lewis
Cecil Day Lewis 1904 - 1972
London Calling Asia
8 March 1958  OS

C. Day Lewis talks to Members of Asia Club about

   Audiothe literary and moral value of the crime novel  3 min 5

   Audioplots, thrillers and detective novels  2 min 32

   Audiothe progression from "Whodunit" to psychological thriller   2 min 59

   Audiowriting poetry compared with writing fiction  2 min 24


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Cecil Day Lewis
Poet, critic and crime writer

Leading poet and crime writer of the 30s and 40s, Cecil Day Lewis's work includes The Magnetic Mountain, An Overture to Death and Collected Poems.
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