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Eat, Pray, Write a Memoir

Ian McMillan goes in search of how to write a memoir. Memoirs top the non-fiction best-selling lists, and courses are bursting at the seams. Ian finds out just where to start.

Memoirs top the non-fiction best selling lists and memoir writing courses are bursting at the seams.

Ian McMillan goes in search of how to write a memoir. He meets Helena Drysdale - a memoirist who teaches the skill, and Helena Tym who decided to write her memoir ' Chin up, Head down,' after her son was killed in Afghanistan.

Writers from the Ty Newydd writers centre in Wales talk about starting their memoirs, and Ian encourages Radio 4 listeners to stop whatever they're doing, and put down the first words of their own .

Producer: Janet Graves
A Pennine production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

15 minutes

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Wed 3 Apr 2013 09:30
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  • Fri 8 Mar 2013 13:45
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  • Wed 3 Apr 2013 09:30
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