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The Sunday Feature: The Real Macondo

BBC Radio 3
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"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad. Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to wonder whether in Latin America truth was stranger than fiction, or whether novels were truer than history".
A story of the cult of magical realism. Bob Peck reads from Gabriel Garcia
Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude, and Nick Caistor visits the mythical town of Macondo. where the novel is set. Producer Mick Webb

Contributors

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Colonel Aureliano Buendia
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Bob Peck
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Gabriel Garcia
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Nick Caistor
Producer:
Mick Webb
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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