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Tribute to Catherine Cookson
A tribute to the hugely successful English writer who has died aged 91
Nine out of ten books borrowed from British libraries are written by Catherine Cookson. A tribute to the English writer who has died aged 91.
Also on the programme: Tom Paulin and Jonathan Bate on the 19th-century essayist William Hazlitt, the Needs of Writers international conference and the growing irrelevance of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in Russia.
Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
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