Dame Tracey Emin, Doreen Soulsby, Dame Maureen Lipman, Young Adult Fiction

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dame Tracey Emin, one of the most famous artists and leading figures of the Young British Artists movement of the 1990s. Hers is a uniquely provocative, confessional style which confronts issues such as trauma of abortion, rape, alcoholism and sexual history. In recent years Tracey has focussed on painting and she has just published her first in-depth exploration of her painted work, simply called Paintings. It coincides with a new exhibition, I followed you to the end, at the White Cube gallery in London, which features mostly paintings that her treatment and recovery from bladder cancer.

A man who raped, and stabbed a woman 60 times in Northumberland 27 years ago has been recommended for release by the parole board. Steven Ling was jailed for life in 1998 after murdering Joanne Tulip. Ms Tulip’s mother, Doreen Soulsby has condemned the decision. She shares her story with Anita.

Dame Maureen Lipman proposed to her partner, David Turner, as a joke. And he said yes! The two 78-year-olds are now engaged. Dame Maureen joins Anita to tell her the story of how it happened, and why she was the one who proposed.

Since this summer, Woman’s Hour has been taking a deep dive into the world of 'genre fiction', the women who write it and the women who read it. We’ve turned the pages of Romantasy; Science fiction; Historical novels; Spy and Thrillers. Today it’s the turn of YA, Young Adult fiction. To discuss the YA genre and what’s in it for women, Anita is joined by Catherine Doyle, co-author of the Twin Crowns trilogy, whose new YA novel, an epic, enemies-to-lovers fantasy, The Dagger and The Flame, is out this month; and Laura Dockrill, author of Lorali and Big Bones.

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0:52.0	Some of you will know that we've been doing deep dives into different genres of literature and today we'll be discussing all things YA young adults.
1:01.2	So take me back to your youth. Tell me about the book you read that meant
1:05.2	the most to you and why. Tell me about your teenage self and how meaningful that book was for you.
1:11.1	Any Jacqueline Wilson readers out there? Did you read Angus Thongs and
1:14.5	perfect snogging? How about Adrian Mole? Or were you reading the Twilight series
1:19.2	over your daughter's shoulder? Maybe your son's daughter? I read the hate you give, that was excellent.
1:24.1	Or like me, were you secretly reading Wuthering Heights with a torch under the duvet?
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