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Zadie Smith on north-west London and the long shadow of history
Monday, August 11, 202558 minAuthor InterviewsTranscript available
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Zadie Smith joins Mara Elwood to talk about White Teeth, the comedy of multicultural Britain, and writing a first novel in public.
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