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Based on Life Class by Pat Barker

Pat Barker won the Booker prize in 1995 for her novel The Ghost Road, the last in her Regeneration trilogy set during the First World War. Five years ago she returned to the Great War with the first in her new trilogy Life Class, based around the students studying at The Slade School for Art.

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  • Type: Analysis
  • Channel: BBC Radio 4
  • Duration: 27'41''
  • Broadcast date: 2012
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UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted

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Regeneration | BBC World Service | 2014

World Book Club | Pat Barker - Regeneration

Pat Barker talks about her internationally renowned novel Regeneration, the first in the trilogy of novels which culminated in the Booker Prize winner The Ghost Road.
Regeneration | BBC Two | 1998

The Learning Zone | Film Education: Regeneration

Education programme examining our understanding of the First World War through poetry, testimony and film. Based around the dramatisation of Pat Barker's award winning novel ''Regeneration''