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May 2019
44m 34s

Tracey Emin

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Guest host Razia Iqbal speaks to contemporary artist Tracey Emin. Emin talks about the moments that shaped and inspired her voice, including her family's sudden poverty, her sexual encounters with older men as a teenage girl, and her emergence as one of Britain's most famous and controversial visual artists. How I Found My Voice is a new Intelligence Squared ... Show More
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