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Listen to Lesley on Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4

Wednesday, 20 February, 2008

Listen to Lesley talking about The Last Concubine:
broadcast on Woman’s Hour on Radio 4 on February 19th at 10.30 am.

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Lesley Downer @lesleydowner ·
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Excellent piece. I'm actually one of those miserable talking heads though the meat of what I said has been excised and the remainder reduced to sound bites.

Hadley Freeman @HadleyFreeman

Today’s @thetimes column can be summed up in one word: HARRUMPH

https://www.thetimes.com/article/296d4580-a65e-4ec1-9954-91f920f7e692?shareToken=9767d67449a085dc43a2ec89398c15a5

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'I knew him once, Horatio.' Sad news of the great #TomStoppard's death.  During the 1990s we had many discussions about art, science and playwrighting. Tom was an inspiration. I currently write plays about science, inspired by him: https://arthurimiller.com/synchronicity/
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    • The Shortest History of Japan
      • Foreign Editions of ‘The Shortest History of Japan’
    • On the Narrow Road to the Deep North
      • Foreign Editions of ‘On the Narrow Road to the Deep North’
    • The Shogun’s Queen
      • Further Reading
      • Foreign Editions of ‘The Shogun’s Queen’
    • Across a Bridge of Dreams
      • An Extract from ‘Across a Bridge of Dreams’
      • Foreign Editions of ‘Across a Bridge of Dreams’
    • The Courtesan and the Samurai
      • An Extract from ‘The Courtesan and the Samurai’
      • Foreign Editions of ‘The Courtesan and the Samurai’
    • The Last Concubine
      • An Extract from ‘The Last Concubine’
      • Foreign Editions of ‘The Last Concubine’
    • Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha who Seduced the West
      • Foreign Editions of ‘Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha who Seduced the West’
    • Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World
      • Foreign Editions of ‘Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World’
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      • Foreign Editions of ‘The Brothers’
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