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My Summer Job
Series of talks in which writers talk about the temporary jobs they took before taking up writing full time. Is the summer job an enemy of promise or the best experience for a would-be writer?
First Broadcast20 Jul 2010
Latest Broadcast1 Sept 2010
Episodes5
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Episodes
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Twenty Minutes
AL Kennedy on the summer she spent working with her grandmother, a furniture polisher.
Aug 2010
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Claire Messud on having worked pushing the elderly in wheelchairs and slaving in offices.
Aug 2010
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Joe Queenan on working for a summer in a bubble gum factory.
Jul 2010
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Award-winning writer Julia Blackburn recalls a summer job as a lexicographer.
Jul 2010
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Novelist Tim Pears remembers his early working life before he became a writer.
Sept 2010