Hi, it's Nicola Cochlin. Young people have been making history for years, but we don't often hear about them. My brand new series on BBC Sounds sets out to put this right. In history's youngest heroes, I'll be revealing the fascinating stories of 12 young people who've played a major role in history and who've helped shape our world. Like Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, Louis Braille and Lady Jane Grey.

History's youngest heroes with me, Nicola Cochlin.

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Ah, evocative stuff.

Howdy, from Riders of the Purple Sage to True Grit.

On today's program, I lasoo in the best of the bunch

in classic and modern westerns.

And with the announcement of the bunch in classic and modern westerns. And with the announcement of the Women's Prize for Fiction Long List, it's an odds-on certainty

that I'll be discussing betting on literary prizes later in the program.

But first, a happy coincidence as we welcome a writer featured on that list, a prize-winning bestseller since the moment her debut novel,

Behind the Scenes at the Museum, hit bookshops in 1995.

Since then, Kate Atkinson has continued to produce a string of intensely enjoyable literary novels,

full of challenges and surprises,

along with a series of crime books adapted for the BBC

as case histories starring Jason Isaacs. Her latest book, Life After Life, is perhaps her most

ambitious, and I'd be surprised if it doesn't retain its place on the women's prize for fiction

when they prune nominees down to a short list. Through the eyes of her

central character Ursula, a young woman born or perhaps still born in 1910, Atkinson places

the trickery of fate in sharp relief. Imagining a myriad of different lives and deaths for her

protagonist, she charts Ursula's experiences through two world wars,

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