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Radio 4,1 min
"My heart was thumping..." Colum McCann on the art of fictionalising real living people, and how they react.
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McCann discusses his 2013 novel TransAtlantic which tells the intertwined stories of Alcock and Brown, the first non-stop transatlantic fliers in 1919, and the story of the Irish peace process as negotiated by Senator George Mitchell in 1998.
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