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Angelina Jolie's 87% cancer risk examined. And is the UK suffering a Romanian crime wave?
Andrew Wilson's book about the early life and work of the writer Sylvia Plath is abridged by Miranda Davies
5/5 Sylvia Plath wins a Fulbright scholarship and starts at Cambridge University.
First broadcast: 15 Feb 2013
4/5 The early life of Sylvia Plath as she starts work at Mademoiselle magazine in New York.
First broadcast: 14 Feb 2013
3/5 The early life of Sylvia Plath, as she struggles with the sexual hypocrisy of '50s America
First broadcast: 13 Feb 2013
2/5 Plath's charismatic high school teacher recognises her 'lyric gift'.
First broadcast: 12 Feb 2013
1/5 Eight-year-old Sylvia suffers the loss of her father, Otto.
First broadcast: 11 Feb 2013
5/5 Sylvia Plath wins a Fulbright scholarship and starts at Cambridge University.
Sat 16 Feb 2013 00:30 BBC Radio 4
Sylvia Plath's haunting and iconic only novel, broadcast on its 50th anniversary.
John Humphrys on Sylvia Plath's relationship with Ted Hughes and it's impact on her work.
Mariella Frostrup talks to Ali Smith about Sylvia Plath's celebrated novel The Bell Jar.
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