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Doris Lessing
In a special programme to mark the landmark novel, The Golden Notebook, Jenni talks to its author, Doris Lessing, about the book’s reception and interpretation – and about why, after all these years, she still gets cross when it’s referred to as 'feminist'.
Nobel Prize-winning author, Doris Lessing, died aged 94 on 17 November 2013.
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