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The fifth of ten programmes.
Nicholas Farrell reads an excerpt from A Little Athens by David Holbrook.
To Paul, a scholarship schoolboy in the 1930s, death brings to mind only a lately deceased goldfish and a sparrow he once killed. The death of a schoolteacher brings home the reality. Director Peter Kavanagh Stereo

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Unknown:
Nicholas Farrell
Unknown:
Little Athens
Unknown:
David Holbrook.
Director:
Peter Kavanagh
Source: Radio Times

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