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Catherine Cookson
The life of the English writer who wrote a novel almost every six months
The life of the English writer who wrote a novel almost every six months as well as personally responding to the roughly 3000 letters she received a year. Biographer Kathleen Jones talks about the issue that most scarred Cookson: her illegitimacy.
Also on the programme: Joanna Bourke talks about her book An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing In Twentieth Century Warfare and translator Peter Theroux on House of Mathilde by Hassan Daoud.
Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
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This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project
