How My Film Won an Oscar – Emma Donoghue
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Writer Emma Donoghue us how she wrote an Oscar-nominated script working with director Lenny Abrahamson on 'Room'. She also talks about her latest novel 'The Pull of the Stars' set during the 1918 flu pandemic – with parallels that sound a familiar note today. For more on Emma’s book: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/emma-donoghue/the-pull-of-the-stars/9781529046151 City of Books host Martina Devlin Music Daragh Dukes
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