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Short Story: The Exclamation Mark

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Anton Chekhov.
Upset by a taunt that he lacked education, civil servant Perekladin - normally so sure of his punctuation - was haunted that night by dancing commas and flying colons and among them, tall and reproachful, a fiery exclamation mark!
Read by Michael Kilgarriff. Translated by Arnold Hinchcliffe Producer Sarah Kilgarriff

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Unknown:
Anton Chekhov.
Read By:
Michael Kilgarriff.
Translated By:
Arnold Hinchcliffe
Producer:
Sarah Kilgarriff

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