Imagine Doris Lessing: The Hostess and the Alien (Season 11, Episode 1)
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TV Episode | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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Doris Lessing: The Hostess and the Alien (Season 11, Episode 1)

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TV Episode | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Arts and culture program. Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, is both 'hostess' and 'alien' - the hostess, who presents a public face to the world, and the private person who writes, dreams and 'experiments with ...See moreArts and culture program. Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, is both 'hostess' and 'alien' - the hostess, who presents a public face to the world, and the private person who writes, dreams and 'experiments with her life'. Alan Yentob meets the feisty 88-year-old whose 'myth country' is still the African bush where she was brought up. All her life she's been fighting her mother - a relationship she explores in her latest book. Written by Press Office See less