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Zadie Smith reads from her electrifying essay collection offering sharp, and often funny, insights and observations on high culture, pop culture, social change, political debate and the personal.

First published between 2010 and 2018 - she begins with her reflections on growing up in multicultural London in the 1980s.

One of the best regarded writers of her generation, Zadie Smith is the award winning author of the novels, White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time. Feel Free is her second essay collection.

Wide ranging, timely and witty, each essay is a perceptive view of the contemporary world – offering sharp, and often funny, insights and observations on high culture, pop culture, social change, political debate and the personal.

Zadie was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. Her 2000 debut White Teeth, won numerous literary awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award.

Zadie Smith is a professor of fiction at New York University.

Omnibus of five episodes read by the author.

Abridged and produced by Elizabeth Allard

First broadcast on Â鶹Éç Radio 4 in May 2018.

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