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What is the secret to writing a really juicy biography? Author Caroline Baum interviews seasoned players and persistent newcomers who share their experience of navigating sensitive territory in the search for the real story behind a person’s life. Whether they are writing about the famous or the forgotten, whether their version of events is authorised or
unauthorised, biography is a high-stakes quest full of twists and turns.
Episode | Date |
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Talking About A Revolution
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Apr 04, 2024 |
Acing It
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Mar 28, 2024 |
Healing Hands
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Jan 18, 2024 |
By George
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Jan 18, 2024 |
To Bee or not to Bee
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Jan 04, 2024 |
Playing By The Rules
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Dec 28, 2023 |
Love In Code
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Dec 21, 2023 |
The Case Of The Incredible Vanishing Woman
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Sep 07, 2023 |
The Petitioner
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Aug 31, 2023 |
A Fraction Too Much Friction
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Aug 24, 2023 |
The Mischief Maker
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Aug 17, 2023 |
Uptown Girl
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Aug 10, 2023 |
Bland Ambition
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Aug 03, 2023 |
She Called Him Daddy
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Jul 27, 2023 |
All My Sons
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Jul 20, 2023 |
A rescued life
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Jan 26, 2023 |
The Woolf Man
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Jan 19, 2023 |
The Power of One Plus One
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Jan 12, 2023 |
Don’t Put Your Daughter On The Stage
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Jan 06, 2023 |
Favourite Son
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Dec 29, 2022 |
A Pox On You
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Dec 22, 2022 |
This Was Love
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Aug 18, 2022 |
The Mod Quad
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Aug 11, 2022 |
Between the Lines
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Aug 05, 2022 |
Paint It Black
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Jul 28, 2022 |
The Queen of Brit Bio
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Jul 21, 2022 |
The Red in the Bed
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Jul 14, 2022 |
Suburban Bohemia
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Jul 07, 2022 |
The Invisible Biographer
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Jun 30, 2022 |
Stranger Than Fiction
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Jun 23, 2022 |
Rose de Freycinet
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Jun 16, 2022 |
MAKING IT UP: Colm Toibin on Thomas Mann
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Jun 09, 2022 |
COUNTESS ANONYMOUS: Joyce Morgan on Elizabeth Von Arnim
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Jan 06, 2022 |
MORE CAT THAN DOG: David Marr on Patrick White
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Dec 30, 2021 |
BROTHER AND SISTER: Justine Picardie on Catherine Dior
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Dec 23, 2021 |
THE FORGOTTEN KENNEDY: Paula Byrne on Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy
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Dec 16, 2021 |
A WILD HEART: Bernadette Brennan on Gillian Mears
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Oct 28, 2021 |
DESERT DAMES: Eleanor Hogan on Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill.
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Oct 21, 2021 |
THE LORD AND THE DUKE: Andrew Lownie on the Mountbattens and the Windsors
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Oct 14, 2021 |
MAID IN FRANCE: Helen Castor on Joan of Arc
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Oct 07, 2021 |
LUCKY MAN: Hermione Lee on Tom Stoppard
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Sep 30, 2021 |
THE GO-GETTER: Della Rowley & Drusilla Modjeska on Hazel Rowley
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Sep 23, 2021 |
THE LONG GAME: Christopher Clarey on Roger Federer
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Sep 16, 2021 |
A TALL STORY: Heather Martin on Lee Child.
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Sep 09, 2021 |
NEVER SAY DIE: Heather Clark on Sylvia Plath
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Sep 02, 2021 |
BETRAYAL: Anne Sebba on Ethel Rosenberg
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Aug 26, 2021 |
Life Sentences Season Two Goes International
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Aug 23, 2021 |
Float: Judith Hoare on Dr Claire Weekes
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May 16, 2021 |
That contemptible little squirt: Patrick Mullins on Billy McMahon
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May 09, 2021 |
The Galloping Garbo: Patrick Skene on Olsen Filipaina
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May 02, 2021 |
Light and Shadow: Helen Ennis on Olive Cotton
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Apr 25, 2021 |
High Society: Robert Wainwright on Enid and Sheila
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Apr 18, 2021 |
That's not what I said: Jacqueline Kent on Vida Goldstein
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Apr 11, 2021 |
Breakdown: Mark Mordue on Nick Cave
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Apr 04, 2021 |
Atonement: Cassandra Pybus on Truganini
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Mar 28, 2021 |
Life Sentences - Coming soon
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Mar 20, 2021 |