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On the Train to New Zealand

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Ten talks in which Ray Gosling tells the story of his travels overland to the East.
8: Disco Queen of Burma ' Me and my Burmese friend had lost £10 on the black market. We'd met a dealer in the People's Patisserie on Bogyoke Street, Rangoon, but before my friend could make the transaction he was picked-up by the plainclothes police on a zebra crossing. They confiscated the goods - a pair of Dunlop tennis shoes. To cheer ourselves up, we bought some Mandalay beer from the People's Brewery. And played that cassette again - of the Disco Queen of Burma. Very good - like Helen Shapiro. '

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Ray Gosling
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Helen Shapiro.
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