Last Word | A novelist…
Based on The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Matthew Bannister on the Scottish novelist Iain Banks - author of The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road - who also wrote science fiction.
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- Type: Analysis
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 27'50''
- Broadcast date: 2013
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Literary Resource
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