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Tea or Books? #80: Should Authors Only Write What They Know? and Agatha Christie vs Dorothy L Sayers
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A couple of Queens of Crime and an important question about what writers should be allowed to write… In the first half of episode 80, we ask if writers should only write what they know – whether that means
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