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Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is the writer and film producer Gillian Slovo , South African-born daughter of the political activist Joe Slovo and journalist Ruth First , who was murdered in 1982 for her involvement in the anti-apartheid movement. Gillian's latest book, The Ice Road, is set in Leningrad, also the setting of Shostakovich's Seventh
Symphony- one of her musical passions.

Contributors

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Michael Berkeley
Producer:
Gillian Slovo
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Joe Slovo
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Ruth First
Source: Radio Times

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