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Beryl Bainbridge takes on Samuel Johnson

C L R JAMES, 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.

Beryl Bainbridge talks about According to Queenie, her new novel about the last years of Samuel Johnson. Commemorating the West Indian writer and thinker C.L.R. James in the 100th anniversary of his birth – "father of the black rights movement" and cricket writer whose book Beyond the Boundary has been called a "transcendant classic". Plus, how beeing blind affects the writing of Indian-born writer Ved Mehta.
Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.

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