Open Book: Will Self, A Clockwork Orange, Lawrence Norfolk

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4.2 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Will Self discusses his Booker shortlisted novel Umbrella. Fifty years after the publication of A Clockwork Orange we explore the life and works of his author Anthony Burgess. And Lawrence Norfolk explains why his latest novel is set around the turbulent period of the English Civil War and discusses the joys of writing about the sensual pleasures and power of food.

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1:00.5	My name is Annie Matt Maness.
1:02.2	And my name is Nick Grimshaw.
1:03.4	How long have we known each other, babe?
1:05.0	Probably 20 years now.
1:06.7	And in that time, we've always worked in and around music, right?
1:10.5	We have.
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