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BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, today we offer some hope to younger listeners with writer Catherine Rundell and some help to older students from Ian Rankin,

with the latest in our introductions to the classics. But let's start by imagining an alternative life for former

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. He turned from the painting then, and I turned two,

and he set his hand on my back just below my left shoulder. Inside me, there was a ripple, a kind of swooning. He wanted to be on a date with me.

I was the person he wanted to be alone with. Being courted, being found really attractive

by a man like Bill was not a type of good fortune I'd expected or even actively wanted. To want it would have seemed ridiculous

and indulgent and possibly greedy. I'd had crushes, of course. In fact, I'd had many crushes,

but I tended to feel excitement for the other person in inverse proportion to his excitement for me.

And I didn't even aspire to men like Bill,

to anyone magnetic or exceptional. I pinned my hopes on guys who were smart but ordinary,

and still it worked only when they were the ones who liked me first. The first date of the young

Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton,

reimagined by novelist Curtis Sittenfeld in her new book, Rodham.

But in this version, Young Love doesn't segue into a decades-long alliance.

Instead, Singleton Hillary forges her own political path

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