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Marina Warner

Joan Bakewell talks to prize-winning novelist, critic and cultural historian Marina Warner who, though brought up Catholic, abandoned her faith in her twenties while writing a book.

Joan Bakewell explores areas of belief with artists, thinkers and other public figures.

She talks to prize-winning novelist, critic and cultural historian Marina Warner who, although brought up Catholic and a former pupil of one of Britain's top convent schools, abandoned her faith in her twenties while writing her second book Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary.

Yet she remains personally and professionally interested in all things religious, magical, mythical and irrational.

30 minutes

Last on

Tue 22 Dec 2009 21:00

Broadcasts

  • Christmas Eve 2008 20:45
  • Tue 22 Dec 2009 21:00