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Michelle de Kretser

Award-winning Australian writer Michelle de Kretser talks to Take Four Books about her new novel - Theory & Practice - and its three key influences.

This week Take Four Books, presented by James Crawford, talks to the award-winning Australian writer Michelle de Kretser about her new novel - Theory & Practice - and its three key influences. Michelle's choices were: the diary of Virginia Woolf from 1932; Ali Smith’s The Accidental from 2005; and Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus, from 1980.

Producer: Dom Howell
Editor: Annie McGuire
Take Four Books is a BBC Audio Scotland production.

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Sun 2 Feb 202500:15
BBC Radio 4

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