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A Book at Bedtime: The Slave: 1

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Isaac Bashevis Singer translated from Yiddish by the author and Cecil Hemley and abridged for radio in ten parts by Donald Bancroft

One of the finest novels by the most recent Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, The Slave is a powerful love story set against the exotic hack-ground of 17th-century Poland.

Read by Gabriel WoolfÂ

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Contributors

Author/Translated by:
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Translated by:
Cecil Hemley
Abridged by:
Donald Bancroft
Reader:
Gabriel Woolf
Producer:
Bernard Krichefski

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