Episode details
World Service,07 Jul 1998,28 mins
Jane Smiley's The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
MeridianAvailable for over a year
The critic Elizabeth Glick reviews Jane Smiley's novel about slave labour The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. Also on the programme: a study of WG Grace, the 3rd Annual Sherlock Holmes Festival and an interview with Mario Vargas Llosa about Notebooks of Don Rigoberto. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
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