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Last broadcast on Fri, 12 Feb 2010, 22:45 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
As part of Radio 4's Capturing America series, Mark Lawson selects short pieces by five American authors.
The diaries of Tennessee Williams reveal a social butterfly whose gregariousness is tempered by self doubt. Assignations with lovers, named only by their initials, pepper the extracts covering his burgeoning career as a writer in the 1930s, the post-golden age of A Streetcar Named Desire and the intimate and moving entries from the latter stages of his life. Throughout, his wit and lightness of touch belie a more troubled soul.
Read by Paul Birchard.
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Fri 12 Feb 201022:45
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