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Bush Telegraph

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Donald Trelford. Editor of the Observer, recalls his first foreign assignment - at the age of 25 - as Editor of the Malawi Times, when that country was in the heady throes of achieving its independence. But the dream turned sour.
I was glad to leave in the end. I had seen the country develop from a colony through Independence into a republic that was well on the way to dictatorship. The sense of expectation had given way to the most primitive fear - a land in fear of the knock in the night.'
Producer WALTER WALLICH
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)

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Donald Trelford.
Producer:
Walter Wallich
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