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World Service,30 Nov 1988,28 mins

Heroes

Meridian

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The book Heroes about the Nigerian civil war. The novel by Festus Iyayi has won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. Also featured are two books about Fred Astaire, the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, Charles Dickens' views on America and the Australian writer Patrick White. Presenter: Christopher Bigsby.

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