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* At Home in Fiji

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by C. GORDON CUMMINO
One hundred years ago today Fiji was ceded to the British Crown by the ' King ' of Fiji, Ratu Cakobau. Miss C. Gordon Cumming went to Fiji in the 1870s as companion to the Governor's wife, and wrote home a series of letters describing life in ' The Cannibal Isles.'
PAULINE LETTS reads a selection of the letters which has been made by CHRISTOPHER VENNING

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C. Gordon Cummino
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Ratu Cakobau.
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Miss C. Gordon
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Pauline Letts
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Christopher Venning
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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