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World Service,05 Jul 1999,28 mins

Doris Lessing – On Siblings and Stories

Meridian

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Distinguished author of The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing, talks about her experience of real drought in Zimbabwe and her adored younger brother, both of which she drew on to write her new novel, Mara and Dann. It follows the fortunes of a brother and sister, in a future time after an ice age has destroyed Europe.

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