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Dame Tracey Emin, Doreen Soulsby, Dame Maureen Lipman, Young Adult Fiction

Anita speaks to Tracey Emin about her new exhibition at White Cube in London, as well as her first in-depth exploration of her painted work, new book, Paintings.

Dame Tracey Emin, one of the most famous artists and leading figures of the Young British Artists movement of the 1990s. Hers is a uniquely provocative, confessional style which confronts issues such as trauma of abortion, rape, alcoholism and sexual history. In recent years Tracey has focussed on painting and she has just published her first in-depth exploration of her painted work, simply called Paintings. It coincides with a new exhibition, I followed you to the end, at the White Cube gallery in London, which features mostly paintings that her treatment and recovery from bladder cancer.

A man who raped, and stabbed a woman 60 times in Northumberland 27 years ago has been recommended for release by the parole board. Steven Ling was jailed for life in 1998 after murdering Joanne Tulip. Ms Tulip鈥檚 mother, Doreen Soulsby has condemned the decision. She shares her story with Anita.

Dame Maureen Lipman proposed to her partner, David Turner, as a joke. And he said yes! The two 78-year-olds are now engaged. Dame Maureen joins Anita to tell her the story of how it happened, and why she was the one who proposed.

Since this summer, Woman鈥檚 Hour has been taking a deep dive into the world of 'genre fiction', the women who write it and the women who read it. We鈥檝e turned the pages of Romantasy; Science fiction; Historical novels; Spy and Thrillers. Today it鈥檚 the turn of YA, Young Adult fiction. To discuss the YA genre and what鈥檚 in it for women, Anita is joined by Catherine Doyle, co-author of the Twin Crowns trilogy, whose new YA novel, an epic, enemies-to-lovers fantasy, The Dagger and The Flame, is out this month; and Laura Dockrill, author of Lorali and Big Bones.

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