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World Service,25 Aug 1998,28 mins

Douglas Kennedy interview

Meridian

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"Selling is to business what boxing is to sport." The American writer talks about his novel The Job, which follows a salesman who finds himself suddenly unemployed. Also on the programme: the lexicographer Tony Thorne talks about a new batch of English dictionaries; the languages struggling to survive, including Catalan and Gallic; the writer Jackie Kay talk about her novel Trumpet and the results of the Meridian Short Short Story competition. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.

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