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Silver Threads

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Former armed robber John
Williams reads the first of six extracts from his autobiography.
"In the winter of 1948, 1 committed the first offence of being born. Three months later I was placed into the care of Dr Barnardo's at Barkingside in Essex...." Producer Chris Paling

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