The Working Class Library
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Join writer Richard Benson (The Farm, The Valley) and Claire Malcolm (New Writing North) from The Working Class Library podcast as they seek to explore and reclaim working class people’s contribution to English literature.
Their quest is to establish a new ‘canon’ of working-class books that tell a different story to the established British literary canon. For this live edition of the podcast they will be joined by a special guest writer to identify a working-class classics that they love. The podcast is a venture of The Bee, a new magazine of writing by working class writers which launches this spring.
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