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hello i am john wilson. welcome to this cultural life, the radio four podcast. my guest is tracey emin, an artist who has always put her own life at the centre of her work in drawings, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations, she tells very personal stories. we met in a radio studio in bbc broadcasting house. tracey, welcome to this cultural life. your life has always run all the way through your are right but when did the art start? yet they make the art then took off at school because i missed so much skill. i stopped going to school when i was about 13 and had to go back and i was 15. i went back for three months and i had to do three days a week, by law, otherwise my mum would have been in trouble with social services and things. i just did whatever i wanted to do an art and i think that is what it was really. it really sort of, it became me if that makes sense. in a serious way. and i think, because the teachers took me seriously, and trusted me, that was quite a ....
Broadcasting house. tracey, welcome to this cultural life. your life has always run all the way through your are right but when did the art start? yet they make the art then took off at school because i missed so much skill. i stopped going to school when i was about 13 and had to go back and i was 15. i went back for three months and i had to do three days a week, by law, otherwise my mum would have been in trouble with social services and things. i just did whatever i wanted to do an art and i think that is what it was really. it really sort of, it became me if that makes sense. in a serious way. and i think, because the teachers took me seriously, and trusted me, that was quite a fantastic thing at the age of 15 when no one else did and i didn t have much else to hold onto at the time. and i think if i hadn t done ....
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