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Sunday Feature: Going to Jonestown

BBC Radio 3
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In a remote jungle settlement in Guyana, 25 years ago, almost a thousand people and their leader, Jim Jones , killed themselves. Guyanese poet Fred D'Aguiar travels to Jonestown to talk to writers and artists and people who knew Jones and the settlement in order to discover the legacy of this extraordinary tragedy.
Music composed and performed by Guyanese flautist Keith Waithe Producer Julian May

Contributors

Leader:
Jim Jones
Unknown:
Fred D'Aguiar
Unknown:
Keith Waithe
Source: Radio Times

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