Germaine Greer

from Cultural Exchange · host BBC Radio 4

Germaine Greer chooses The Getting of Wisdom by the Australian novelist Henry Handel Richardson. Published in 1910 it's a story of friendship and betrayal set in a girls boarding school in Melbourne. Presented by Mark Lawson. The interview is followed by selected clips from the BBC archive: Carmen Callil on Henry Handel Richardson; Henry Handel Richardson reading her work in 1944; Germaine Greer, Thomas Kineally and David Williamson on Australia's Cultural Cringe and Germaine Greer on why feminists should not aim for equality with men. Full archive details are available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/germaine-greer

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