Ursula Le guin

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17 Mar 2009, 11:30 on BBC Radio 4

China Mieville talks to American science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin.

Le Guin was a trailblazer - writing in the 1960s, her series of books about the adventures of a boy wizard, Ged, included characters of every race and colour. Her fiction has been acutely concerned with politics, portraying worlds destroyed by environmental catastrophe that prefigured modern concerns about global warming, and societies without gender just as modern-day feminism began to take off.

Featuring contributions and tributes from Iain Banks and Margaret Atwood.



Presumably available on Listen Again and/or iPlayer

Alcohol Pricing

If they want to drink prices to cost 50p per alcohol unit, how little is reasonable drinking if it will only cost a pound a month more?


Will my pint come down to a pound?

Assuming that they will leave my pint alone at £2.60 (£1.30 per unit) I guess this is only an issue if I start buying value. Or cheap wine. Which is possible (there are drinkable New World wines for £3).