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World Service,04 Sep 1981,28 mins

Shakespeare double bill at Stratford

Meridian

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New Shakespeare double bill by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford: Titus Andronicus and Two Gentlemen of Verona. Letters from Africa 1913-1941, by Danish writer Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen), is a frank and factual account of her life on a Kenyan coffee plantation. July's People is the new novel about race relations set against a background of black uprising by South African novelist Nadine Gordimer, who talks about how close the book is to current reality. Alec Waugh, brother of Evelyn and a novelist and travel writer in his own right, has died. Preview of Waving to a Train, Martin Reed's prize-winning radio play that will be broadcast on World Service next week. Presenter: Michael Billington.

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