Plot: Alan Yentob meets the 88-year-old winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, with whom he explores the influence of her African upbringing, her extraordinarily varied life, and her lifelong struggle with her mother, with whom she seeks to come to terms in her latest book.

Imagine… - Season 13 - Doris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine (Episode 1)
Episode Aired On:
Tuesday, May 27 2008
16 years ago
Tuesday, May 27 2008
16 years ago
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