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Book at Bedtime: Balzac and the LittleChinese Seamstress

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By Dai Sijie , abridged in eight episodes by Sarah LeFanu and read by David Yip. 1: At the height of Mao's Cultural Revolution in China, two students from the city are sent to a remote village on Phoenix Mountain for "re-education"by the peasants. They must work in the fields but first they have to explain the presence of a "bourgeois toy" - a violin - in their possession. Producer Mary Ward Lowery

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Unknown:
Dai Sijie
Unknown:
Sarah Lefanu
Read By:
David Yip.
Producer:
Mary Ward Lowery
Source: Radio Times

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