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.

Listen on BBC Sounds.

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Hello, on today's program, the interview questions every writer dreads.

How autobiographical is your book?

Where does your inspiration come from?

How much are your characters based on people you know?

Do you write Longhand?

What are you trying to say with this novel?

I'll be discussing questions never to ask a writer.

And Middlemarch meets North and South,

we continue our writing Britain series

with the impact of industrialisation on the written word.

Now, Pat Barker won the Booker Prize in 1995

for her novel The Ghost Road,

the last in her regeneration trilogy,

set during the First World War.

The Ghost Road explored the psychological trauma

experienced by soldiers in the trenches,

including the poet Siegfried Sassoon

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