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A Book at Bedtime: The Inseparable Twins: 1: The Bread-cutting Room

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by Anatoly Pristavkin. Read in ten parts by John Hurt.
Written in great secrecy in 1981, its recent publication hailed as a literary event, this is the poignant but wickedly funny story of orphaned identical twins in the Caucasus, struggling to survive extremes of hunger, cold and war.

Contributors

Author:
Anatoly Pristavkin.
Reader:
John Hurt.
Translated by:
Michael Glenny
Adapted by:
Cathy Porter
Producer:
Faynia Williams
Source: Radio Times

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