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Feb 2025
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Kate Mosse, Maher Fattouh, Dola Posh, Ol...

Bbc Radio 4
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Internationally lauded, bestselling novelist, Kate Mosse is celebrating big this year, with both the 20th anniversary of her iconic novel Labyrinth, and the 30th edition of the Women’s Prize for Fiction announced later this year.

Maher Fattouh, a football loving student who was blinded by an explosion as he fled Syria in 2014 but discovered that true vision comes from resilience not sight.

Photographer Dola Posh has an eye for beauty, truth and the spaces in between, she explores themes of motherhood, identity and Black women's experiences.

All that plus the Inheritance Tracks of actor, musician and Eurovision contestant Olly Alexander.

Presenters: Nikki Bedi and Huw Stephens Producer: Ben Mitchell

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