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Radio 4,2 mins

How cats have inspired writers through the ages

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200 years after Keats wrote his little-known comic gem To Mrs Reynolds's Cat, we consider the place of cats in literature. Writer and cat-lover Lynne Truss and literary historian John Bowen consider the relationship between the writer and their feline ‘mews’ and asks what makes a 'purr-fect' piece of cat prose.

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