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Famous Footsteps - Episode 1

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Author and journalist Fiona Neill explores the experience of growing up in a creatively successful family. Fiona considers the challenges of maintaining a creative career while bringing up small children. How does a writer, working at home, manage to carve out the mental and physical space to work? Is the 'pram in the hallway' really a barrier to creative thought? She talks to Jennifer Saunders, Adrian Edmondson, Daphne Du Maurier's daughter Tessa Montgomery and songwriter Guy Chambers about their experiences of balancing these conflicting demands. A Paladin Invision production for BBC Radio 4.