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Eccentric Travellers

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by JOHN KEAY
The second of seven programmes with Narrator John Rowe
Thomas Manning was the first Englishman to reach the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. During the months he spent there. he was constantly in fear for his life, but he did meet the Dalai Lama. a boy of ' about 7 years old '.' could have wept,' he wrote, ' through the strangeness of sensation.' With TIMOTHY BATESON
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
John Keay
Narrator:
John Rowe
Narrator:
Thomas Manning
Unknown:
Dalai Lama.
Unknown:
Timothy Bateson
Thomas Manning:
Ian Ogllvy
Source: Radio Times

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