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Electric Spark

by Frances Wilson

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Front Row, BBC Radio 4 · May 27, 2025

Paul Hartnoll of Orbital on the band's Brown album, and a new biography of Muriel Spark.

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A biography of the great Scottish writer, poet and essayist Muriel Spark, written by Frances Wilson, who has previously published acclaimed biographies of D H Lawrence and Thomas De Quincey.

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