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Last broadcast on Fri, 18 Dec 2009, 13:32 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day. Presented by Mark Coles.
Today's programme is a special on the author John Irving.
John Irving
You wouldn't have thought that a man could take his personal obsessions with bears, wrestling, single-parenthood, accidental death and under age sex and spun a successful, massive literary career out of them. Much less twelve big doorstopper sized books. But John Irving has and more than that. In a special interview with Mark Coles for The Strand, the best selling American author of 'The World According to Garp' and 'A Prayer for Owen Meany' discusses his latest novel 'Last Night in Twisted River', how and why he writes, political and cultural life in North America and what happens when fact meets fiction.
Broadcasts
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Thu 17 Dec 200922:32
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Fri 18 Dec 200903:32
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Fri 18 Dec 200909:32
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Fri 18 Dec 200913:32
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