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Rita Ora, Writing About Sex, Die Hard at 30

Rita Ora on her six-year journey to release her second album Phoenix, Rowan Pelling and Matt Thorne on why so much sex in fiction is badly written, and Die Hard at 30

Rita Ora on her six year journey to release her second album Phoenix, following a legal dispute with her record label. The musician, who has also acted in the Fifty Shades film trilogy and been a judge on television talent shows The Voice and The X-Factor, talks to John Wilson about finally being able to release music, song writing and her Albanian heritage.

This year鈥檚 Bad Sex In Fiction award was won by James Frey and also had an all-male shortlist. So what defines good and bad writing of sex in literature, and why do men seem to be worse at it than women? Novelist Matt Thorne and Rowan Pelling, founding editor of the Erotic Review now of The Amorist, discuss.

Unbelievably, Die Hard is 30 years old this year. Stand-up poet Kate Fox considers why this thriller starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman is such a classic.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Sarah Johnson

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28 minutes

Rita Ora

Rita Ora
Rita Ora

Her new album Phoenix聽is out now

Main image: Rita Ora and
John Wilson
Photo credits: 麻豆社


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  • Fri 14 Dec 2018 19:15

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