Zadie Smith is unquestionably one of the finest novelists of her generation, but you may not know that she's also now a playwright - albeit by accident. In part one of her conversation with Jonny, we find out the treachery she was subjected to after turning her back on a talent show's judges to sing a Whitney Houston track to a wall, her retirement plan involving a fusion of jazz standards, comfortable clothing and literary gossip, and how she reimagined one of literature's raunchiest feminist icons from the middle ages into a 21st century Willesden pub. 

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