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Literary Christmas Gifts

News and features from the world of books, presented by Mariella Frostrup. Literary Christmas gifts and crowd-funded publishing.

Mariella Frostrup and her guests, novelists Patrick Flanery and Preti Taneja suggest some literary Christmas gifts, and she investigates the rise in crowd funded publishing in 2017. Also on the programme as the teenage diaries of Margaret Forster are published, her husband and daughter join Mariella to discuss what they reveal about this most loved writer.

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28 minutes

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Thu 21 Dec 2017 15:30

Chapters

  • Christmas literary gifts

    Duration: 12:21

  • Crowd funded published

    Duration: 07:00

  • Hunter and Caitlin Davies on Margaret Forster

    Duration: 07:46

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Mariella Frostrup
Interviewed Guest Patrick Flanery
Interviewed Guest Preti Taneja

Broadcasts

  • Sun 17 Dec 2017 16:02
  • Thu 21 Dec 2017 15:30

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