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Gillian slovo, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Gillian, you have been writing for many decades, but your recent work, particularly your plays, have focused not so much on your own authorial voice, your imagination, they focused on real peoples real stories. I just wonder if youre getting sick of making things up. Im not, actually, because, you know, theres part of me that wants to go back to my desk to be on my own, to make stuff up, but ive really got a lot from working in the theatre and from the collaboration that comes, not only from the crew and the directors and the actors, but actually the collaboration that comes from the people ive interviewed. And finding a way to magnify their voice onstage has been actually really a wonderful piece of work for me. Ive really learnt a lot about it, and it also teaches you about dialogue when you want to go back to drama, to writing fiction. I mean, your most recent play, which has been on in the uk and indeed on in new york as well, is all a

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