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In the final years of Dr Hastings Banda's dictatorship, the English Shakespeare Company toured Malawi with a production of Macbeth. For the Malawians, the 400-year-old English drama had a powerful contemporary resonance. Tonight's programme interweaves the story of the tour with a portrait of Malawian poet Jack Mapanje during his exile in New York. Mapanje's return to his native land is documented in African Footsteps tomorrow at 8.00pm.
(Africa's Big Game is at 9.30 pm)

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Subject:
Jack Mapanje
Director:
John Purdie
Source: Radio Times

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