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World Service,21 Jan 1997,28 mins

The Calcutta Chromosome

Meridian

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Review of The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh. Also, a tribute to the late James Dickey, American writer whose death was announced at the age of 73, news of a generous writing fellowship from a wealthy Hong Kong businessman to an English university, Elizabeth McCracken's first novel and the American writer Nicholson Baker.

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